Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great success of the United States proposal at the recent OAS conference" (this was the document which attacked the Castro government), was characterized by the fact that the Foreign Ministers of Venezuela and Peru refused to sign it. Many others including the Foreign Minister of Mexico, in signing said that they supported the Cuban government though they did not approve of the Russian influence. U.S. prestige and pressure had won another battle, but this could hardly be an example of "Inter-American Amity...
...high command, including President Orvil E. Dryfoos, took a worried look at the eroding Kennedy margin, gathered in emergency conference and hurriedly decided to stop the presses for almost three hours while Reston clattered out a new version of the latest developments. "Our obligation was to produce a historical document," said Reston. The Times move abruptly halted printing 279,000 papers, causing a temporary vacuum happily filled by the opposition Herald Tribune, which sold more papers that morning (500,000) than it had in years. By 7:17 a.m. the Times was safely back and square with history...
Meanwhile, Stanley H. Hoffman, associate professor of Government, sharply attacked his colleagues for their sympathetic stand in a Winthrop House talk Thursday night. Hoffman, just in from Paris, where he is on a year's leave from the University, argued that the manifesto was a treasonable document and thus it was normal and justifiable for the French government to punish its signers...
...dramatize his "New Frontier" theme, Campaigner John Kennedy often drew on a favorite anecdote about Benjamin Franklin. As his fellow delegates to the Constitutional Convention rose one by one to sign the newborn document, Franklin observed that for many days he had been unable to decide whether the rosy sun on the painting behind the president's chair was rising or setting. "But now at length," said Franklin, "I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting...
Frenzel told the Communists plenty. Across his desk for seven years flowed defense budgets, tables of organization, precise plans for the purchase of equipment and weapons. In defense committee briefings, Frenzel even heard excerpts from NATO's supersecret Document MC-70, spelling out NATO goals in manpower and weapons. Said one Western expert: "He got both documents and general policy, and that's ideal...