Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Never in Doubt? Inasmuch as Washington and Hanoi had done nothing more than select a place to talk about talks, the reaction was disproportionately euphoric. On Wall Street, the Dow-Jones industrial average spurted 11.91 points before receding during an 18 million-share day. In Washington, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield cried: "Excellent, excellent! The ice jam has been broken." "This is the best news I have heard for a long time," said U.N. Secretary-General U Thant...
Among the French, joy was unalloyed?except by smugness. "Was it ever in doubt?" murmured Premier Georges Pompidou during a visit to Teheran. "This is the result of the clairvoyant action of President de Gaulle with regard to the Viet Nam War," exulted long-time De Gaulle Critic Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Some French officials saw the parley as an opportunity for le grand Charles to establish himself as an outsize hyphen between East and West and a buffer between Hanoi and the U.S. Others spoke of Paris' long history as a site for crucial talks?perhaps overlooking such notable...
...doubt another important factor in the success eduation is Vietnam. These radical students were the ones who led their professors and school administrators to doubt the war. They were there first with their demonstrations and sacrifices. They have proved their legitimacy. University administrators find it hard to be on the authoritarian end of things. They don't want to be caught squashing another Montgomery...
This is a new sort of sophisticated pressure politics--pressure politics for the unrepresented. It is lobbying and bribery for those who are in no position to lobby or bride. No doubt other unrepresented groups will follow these tactics...
...delicate political immunity that accompanies Northern black demonstrations around the time of Dr. King's death, occupy a position of strength within the University. With the right technique, students can rally enough power to stop the University. Whether this is also enough power to change it remains in doubt. This is the third stage of the Columbia demonstration, student activism to force constructive and permanent change. The rationale for prolonging the demonstration before the violence, and the movement toward student solidarity after the violence, are the first and second stages...