Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throughout the U.S. found that it was hard to distinguish between those Americans who want to get out of Viet Nam at any price and those who want to win the war and then get out-fast. Though the President claimed that there were "no deep divisions" over the conduct of the war, a clashing disharmony rang loud and clear the length of the land...
Coalition of Discontent. As for the conduct of the war, a great many Americans feel strongly that: 1) America is paying too much, in both dollars and lives, for a conflict not of its making; 2) South Viet Nam is not pulling its weight militarily; 3) any Saigon regime, under whatever system of elections or government, will remain corrupt and undemocratic; 4) the U.S. is pulling its punches, particularly in the application of air power in the bombing of North Viet...
...nominal issue was a constitutional question as delicate as any in the federal system of checks and balances: What power does Congress have to influence or change the President's conduct of a war? Committee Chairman William Fulbright evangelized for a resolution suggesting that Congress should have greater control over foreign policy. Implicit in the resolution was Fulbright's disapproval of the war and his wishful belief that Congress could do something...
...bring down Mobutu's "dictatorial and tribal" regime, and restore Moise Tshombe to his rightful place in a "democratic" Congo. Now Schramme has abandoned that ambitious task and an nounced his willingness to call off the two-month-old revolt in exchange for an amnesty and a safe conduct for his men, including an estimated 1,000 Katangese gendarmes...
...they have accomplished little. Papa Debray, muttering comparisons to "the trial of Joan of Arc" and "the Dreyfus case," has only succeeded in firing his son's Bolivian lawyer. He has urged Regis to conduct his own defense-which Papa sees as "a dialogue between the philosopher and the sword." Mama Debray, meantime, caused a near riot by defending those nice guerrillas to an audience that included the survivors of some of the guerrillas' victims. She also threw her son a dialectical screwball by revealing that "it was very difficult for me to understand his book." Said...