Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...internal political democracy--to eliminate the wretched social conditions which underlie the 27-year-old peasant revolt throughout Vietnam. Thus, if the United States intends to avoid a "fake" solution in Southeast Asia, its leader--whoever is elected to succeed President Johnson--must make the forthcoming peace talks squarely confront a vast panoply of long-standing problems, of which the current war is only the most recent expression...
...scarcely well adjusted. Lot (Brian Bedford) has come home to the Delta to claim the decayed house and rich land bequeathed to him by his mother. He brings with him his two-day bride, a jittery ex-showgirl named Myrtle (Estelle Parsons), without having told her that they will confront his half brother Chicken (Harry Guardino). He is partially of Negro blood, and has lived in the house and slavishly farmed the land for years...
Last week 50 Negroes, led by Playwright LeRoi Jones, trooped into the Newark city council chamber to confront Imperiale's vigilantes attending a routine council session. When a phonograph played the national anthem, the Negroes refused to stand and the whites cried: "Throw the bastards out!" Jones, arguing against the proposed use of police dogs in the ghetto, told the council: "Our rational plea to this community is to avoid the emotional issue of dogs. Whether you own Newark or not, nobody can sell ashes...
...statement today, McCarthy charged that "supporters of the President have failed to defend the merits of his policies or discuss a single one of the great issues which confront this country... The entire campaign for the President has consisted of a single shrill and irrelevant and false note; the implication that opposition to the President's policies is somehow disloyal...
McNamara left the Pentagon in the best shape, managerially speaking, it has ever been in. Inevitably he also left behind a spate of unresolved problems that Clifford must confront even if he is only in office through next January in a caretaker role, as some officials expect. Chief among them...