Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond encouraging direct Arab-Israeli negotiations and resisting Russia's attempts to brand Israel the aggressor and strip away all of its gains, U.S. policymakers are looking toward the future-far into the future. Lyndon Johnson characteristically visualizes a TVA-style project for the Jordan River basin. White House Aide Walt Rostow, in a commencement address at Vermont's Middlebury College, proposed a regional economic program. But no long-range plan can work, as Johnson conceded at a weekend fund-raising dinner in Austin, unless each nation in the area accepts "the right of its neighbors to stable...
WHEN Saigon Bureau Chief Simmons Fentress tried to reach New York on our direct teletype line one morning last week, the operator was brusque: "Tell him to hold it for a minute. Doesn't he know there...
...dawn and early morning hours, Lyndon Johnson pored over cables on the Arab-Israeli war in his White House bedroom. After two weeks in which the President had bent every effort to avert hostilities, the overwhelming peril was that the U.S. and Russia would now be sucked into a direct confrontation that neither superpower wanted. Around 8 a.m., Monday, the President's bedside phone brought some electrifying and potentially ominous news. Walt W. Rostow, the President's national security adviser, was calling to report that the "hot line" was being activated from Moscow...
...symposium experts admitted that they were bewildered by the complexities of inflammation. If they were red-faced, it was appropriate. As U.C.L.A.'s Dr. Carl Pearson pointed out, the redness of measles is not a direct result of the virus invasion but a consequence of the inflammatory reaction by which the body tries to cure itself...
...have no "party line"; each participant is free to respond as he wishes to queries on whether the U.S. should withdraw immediately, or whether the President should be opposed in 1968 even if running against a hawkish Republican. On the other hand, radical leaders who will be helping to direct Vietnam Summer are said to believe that its main function is to plant the seeds for broad-based radical politics--something never before accomplished on a long-range basis in the United States...