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...year, three institutions have been principally responsible for formulating Viet Nam policy: the Tuesday Lunch Group that Abrams sat in on last week; the Thursday Group, including C.I.A. Boss Helms, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Wheeler, Nitze, and several others who meet regularly in Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach's office; and the Eleven O'Clock Group, mostly lower-level officials assigned to draft the policymakers' decisions. Among all these officials, few supported the bombing of the North up to the end. The swing man, inclined first one way, then the other, was Lyndon...
...Western Europe might bring down the full force of the U.S. nuclear deterrent on the Russian homeland-and World War III. Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford visited West Germany and West Berlin to convey firm assurance of U.S. protection. A few days later, Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach flew to Belgrade for talks with Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, who is feeling pressure from Moscow...
...Chanel suits picked out by her mother, and she now goes dining and dancing in pants-shaggy fur ones for the gaucho look at a party given by Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland, fringed satin ones for the Indian look at a Four Seasons reception for Yves Saint Laurent. Post-Deb Cathy Macauley, 21, shows up in Manhattan for the superformal opening of the Metropolitan Opera season wearing black culottes, an extravagantly embroidered red vest and a leash borrowed from her cat as a necklace. "I was going to go barefoot," says Cathy, "but I guess that's not right...
...many speakers warned that continued disorder and the use of violence are self-defeating tactics in seeking university reform. "The power of an impassioned minority to disrupt is great," Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach advised the Stony Brook campus of S.U.N.Y., "but not as great as the power of a determined majority to repress." Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. said at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York that "on balance, the world stands to gain from student protest," but he took issue with the New Left creed, which has inspired much of the campus disorder...
...they marched to the Communist Party headquarters and shouted for Alexander Dubček to show himself. It was midnight. In the past, the students would either have been clubbed to the ground or, at the very best, ignored. This time, no one interfered with them. What was more, Debček quickly appeared before them in the street. "What are the guarantees that the old days will not be back?" one student asked him. "You yourselves are that guarantee," replied Dubček. "You, the young." Then, as if mulling over all his country's painful history...