Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embassy in Saigon now believes that the best way out of the war would be through direct negotiations between the South Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker has been quietly promoting the idea, but President Thieu resists,1 arguing that his own generals would get up in arms against him if he were to dare recognize the Viet Cong. Thieu last week was drafting a letter to Ho, proposing to meet him face to face. In the unlikely event that Ho accepts, Thieu will ask the U.S. to stop bombing for seven days and to continue...
...formidable barriers to this approach. A constituency of educators and parents would have to fight the Boston School Committee's vested interest in vocational education. Companies would have to organize large-scale training programs, which many firms have already done. Boston and its suburbs would have to build direct transportation from the central city to Route 128, where many of the expanding industries are located. But this public transportation is necessary anyway to fill the skilled worker demand in the 128 firms...
...Direct Visualization...
...fiber optics instrument allows heart defects and functions that cannot be detected by x-ray and electrocardiogram, to be seen and filmed, Dr. Gamble said. It makes possible direct visualization of the color, shape, texture, and motion of the heart, Dr. Gamble said, without necessitating surgery...
Some surgery is very dangerous if certain anatomic formations exist in a diseased heart, he said. The direct view of the heart, available through the fiber optics instrument, gives vital information without risking dangerous surgery...