Word: demand
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Whatever course the talks ultimately take, the opening scenarios are fairly predictable. The Communists will demand a total cessation of U.S. air strikes and all other acts of war against the North (presumably including naval bombardments and artillery shells lobbed across the Demilitarized Zone) before they will consent to talk about "other matters." In its turn, the U.S. will insist on a quid pro quo under the San Antonio formula that Johnson enunciated last September. As Defense Secretary Clark Clifford defined it, the prescription calls for the U.S. to stop the bombing if North Viet Nam indicates that it will...
...immediate demand is the release of the one student arrested at the park, Fred Wilson, who might as well be named John Everyman, because nobody knows him. To reciprocate for Fred's detention Dean Coleman is held hostage...
...will be peculiarly difficult for President Johnson to order this impressive array of military power into action against the marchers. For unlike the riots or the anti-war protests over the last several years, the demands of the Poor People's Campaign are based on a liberal ideology which the Johnson Administration has often and loudly endorsed. It was only one month ago that President Johnson told the nation that he would immediately demand bold measures to meet the needs of the urban crisis...
...major issues were at stake in the constitution fight: student legislative power and student representation on the Council. The new constitution grants RUS requests on one point--independent legislation--but does not accept RUS' demand for permanent student membership on the Council...
There are some hopeful signs. Last Thursday, the Urban League and Boston College announced a joint project to ease the transfer of white businesses to blacks. The agreement gave the community group control of resources, which seemed the key community demand. But the problem of hard-won foundation grants wasn't involved, and there was only one project and a relatively small group of people involved. Broad, institutionalized cooperation will vastly increase the chance of misunderstanding--slighting of community advisors, and a whole range of personal problems which easily take on racial connotations...