Word: deal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ARRANGING an interview with a head of state often involves a time-consuming and frustrating tangle of red tape. For TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, merely making a date with South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu was a great deal simpler than keeping it. When he arrived at the presidential palace to interview Thieu for this week's cover story, Clark's press credentials did not move the guards to relax the caution of long experience. The office car, the two tape recorders Clark was carrying, everything got a thorough going-over...
...pointing out that there is in existence a statute that cuts off federal aid to demonstrators who have been convicted of breaking the law. Given the strong current of public feeling against the demonstrators, the President could probably have done little less. He could, however, have done a great deal more, and those who hoped for a more repressive policy would undoubtedly be disappointed. The student message is, in fact, a paradigm of the Nixon style as so far revealed. The rhetoric is pitched to the right by condemning violence (but at the same time the message calls for reform...
...diplomatic support, the South Vietnamese government resorts to a wide variety of tricks. One of the tricks is to give the impression that the Saigon government itself is shaping up, and that the United States should help them in this effort instead of forcing them to make a deal with the other side since according to them, this would only lead to an eventual communist take-over and therefore would be tantamount to an American sellout of its ally...
...desire is not to disrupt the Law School, and professors who suggest that reform efforts by first-year students are destructive are displaying a distressing unwillingness to deal with serious issues on their merits...
There is a great deal of serious work to be done. Our understanding of the modern American economy needs to be greatly improved, and radical critiques developed. Alternative systems of industrial organization and of education need to be formulated. The whole concept of decentralized democracy needs to be worked out intelligibly and plausibly. In short, credible alternatives to present forms of production and social organization must be proposed...