Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both Houses of Congress moved toward an overwhelming vote against his position on the war in Viet Nam, Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, characteristically seized the occasion to advocate a new and radical departure from U.S. strategy. What Fulbright proposed last week was a grand design to settle the future of Southeast Asia by means of a solemn accord with Communist China to neutralize the entire area. "Unless," he said, "we are prepared to fight a general war to eliminate the effects of Chinese power in all of Southeast Asia, we have...
...very short time" to a Communist government in Saigon. White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy reminded Bobby of what his late brother had said in a 1963 Berlin speech: "I am not impressed by the opportunities open to popular fronts throughout the world. I do not believe that any democrat can successfully ride that tiger." United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg warned against giving up "all your points in advance" of negotiations...
Died. Boris Nicolaevsky, 78, renowned Kremlinologist, a Russian-born Social Democrat who in 1940, after 18 years of exile in Europe following expulsion by the Bolsheviks, arrived in the U.S. to write more than a dozen works on Soviet life, such as Forced Labor in Soviet Russia (1947), for which he and Co-Author David J. Dallin were denounced in the U.N. as "idiots or gangsters" by the late Andrei Vishinsky; of a heart attack; in Menlo Park, Calif...
...with Feeling. Despite Taylor's arguments, Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore still fretted that the Viet Nam struggle might escalate "until a war with China becomes almost inevitable." Taylor considered that a remote possibility. When the Chinese poured over the Yalu into Korea in 1950, "we had a very aggressive Soviet Union quite capable of militarily exploiting any commitment we made in the Far East," he explained. "We had no nuclear-weapon stockpile of any great significance. We were utterly unprepared for the land war in Korea...
Skiers at Innsbruck and St. Anton tied their skis together with rubber binders that boosted Dr. Josef Klaus for Chancellor. In Vienna, shoppers were assaulted by Technicolored posters plumping for "Pittermann, Always a Democrat, Always for Austria!", and others found their mailboxes stuffed with pamphlets showing Dr. Bruno Pittermann fondling his black cat Petzi. Even the revelers at the huge Vienna Staatsoper Fasching ball could not escape a host of beaming candidates. Austria was in the midst of a bitterly contested election campaign...