Word: containing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instead of letting them stand around outside." Thus, though the city hall is a bastion, it abounds in entrances, ramps, staircases, and a huge central courtyard-all suitable, as Kallmann points out, for sit-ins. Lower levels, which will have the most traffic, are reserved for public business, contain windows at which citizens can file complaints, get licenses, argue over assessments, and register to vote. Slung through the belly of the building, with hooded windows projecting outward, are the ceremonial rooms: on one side, the city council chamber; on the other, overlooking nearby historic Faneuil Hall, the mayor...
...must be assumed that any U.S. approach to negotiations would begin with the premise that this is a war not so much about South Viet Nam as it is about all of Asia. The basic U.S. goal-which is imperfectly understood because it has been inexpertly explained-is to contain Communism and in the process prove to aggressors from Peking to Havana that so-called wars of liberation will not be allowed to succeed. With that in mind, the maximum immediate U.S. goal is to suppress the Viet Cong rebellion, push out the North Vietnamese invaders, preserve South Viet...
...helped the process of nation-building in a truncated chunk of a former French colony; for all its political deficiencies, South Viet Nam is at least starting toward democracy. Third, and perhaps most important, the U.S. became involved in Viet Nam at least partly because of a desire to contain Chinese expansionism; in the past two years, China's internal upheavals have made it far less threatening...
...representation. The State Department has indicated as much. The V.C. certainly might be recognized as a political party, and it is not entirely out of the question that they might be permitted to administer the hamlets that they now control, which, by the government's probably optimistic estimate, contain only 17% of the population. In that kind of arrangement, the Thieu-Ky administration would keep hold of the central government, all the cities, and those rural areas that it controls...
...CFEA is currently compiling a "Vietnam Kit" of information for the project. It will contain a collection of arguments against the war. Also a list of points to be made in anti-war letters to Congressmen and a collection of answers to pro-war arguments will be included...