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...into a false euphoria about the progress of détente. The fact that the Russians fought so hard against the so-called "confidence-building measures" (such as advance notification about military maneuvers) in Basket One went a long way toward dispelling that fear. "Nobody's going to disband NATO because of this conference," declared one American official...
After 500 meters Harvard had edged out to a tenuous four-seat margin. Navy, on the other hand, decided to temporarily disband its racing efforts and began engaging in a little naval warfare with the Dartmouth crew in the adjacent lane...
...nation wide elections to reunite a divided Vietnam that had been called for in the Geneva agreement of 1954. After helping Diem wrest control of the South Vietnamese army, the United States continued to support him as he used it to break up and destroy competing religious-political sects, disband traditional village councils, and force peasants to leave their homes and enter stockades. Meanwhile, the Viet Minh continued to work in the villages in small groups called Chi bo or "party branches," implementing land reforms, limiting taxation, and continuing to win support from rural farmers...
...impression," Marr said, "is that military action against Saigon will increase in 1975," but he added that both the PRG and North Vietnam only want to defeat the Saigon forces to "demoralize them so they disband and return home...
Halfway through Heitmann's speech at the Harvard Club, the protesters who had been marching for over half an hour disband, and Heitmann no longer has to compete with their chants. But the ambassador knows that the questions remain: "We expected to get the support of the democratic world. But we have found there's a worldwide effort to create the image of a country where everyone is tortured and put in jail. Chile is an open country--anyone can go there." With the whirlwind of claim and counter-claim, assertion and denial that envelops the military junta ruling Chile...