Word: demande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forest of Papers. Harriman left the wrangling over procedure to his backup man, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance, who spent three hours and 45 minutes clearing away the underbrush with Colonel Ha. In the actual talks, Hanoi is immediately expected to demand, in Thuy's words, "the unconditional cessation of the U.S. bombing raids and all other acts of war" against the North before going on to other subjects. The U.S., in turn, is certain to demand some reciprocal gesture from Hanoi, though the Administration's bedrock definition of reciprocity is still in flux. Saigon...
...today's white, the question is not, "What can I do?" but "What does the Negro want me to do?" It may stick in many white throats. To ask it is to demand an investment of conscience far beyond the mere missionary zeal to ease the black man's load. One example of this approach is the Committee for the Understanding of Racial Attitudes, formed by students at New York's Union Theological Seminary. CURA's declared purpose is to educate not blacks but whites. "We want to show," says Prudence Milite, "that what happened...
...clashes continued: 30,000 students marched up the Champs Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe, singing the Communist Internationale on the way. By midweek, student strikes and demonstrations had spread to a dozen provincial cities, and even high school pupils picketed in large numbers to demand the release of 100 jailed rioters. Nanterre reopened, but students and nearly half the faculty struck in sympathy with the stillshuttered Sorbonne...
...city, but in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Stirling, they outpolled major parties to win the balance of political power. Those gains demonstrated that nationalism-the dominant political emotion these days in almost every country-has become something of an obsession in Scotland. Heady with victory, Scot-Nat leaders renewed their demand for independence after 261 years of union with England. Said Mrs. Ewing: "The Nationalist Party cannot now be stopped...
Senator McCarthy denied it, but the fact remained that all the candidates had been running a caucus race. And now they would all demand the prize. It was another inconclusive primary...