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...policy. Goodwin does not differ with L.B.J. when he advocates a "parallel course" of fighting and offering to negotiate. He cannot understand why the enemy does not see the point. "Hanoi's unwillingness to negotiate is one of the great mysteries of the war." Goodwin leans to the dove school of thought that wants the Saigon government revamped to include Buddhists and neutralists and others more acceptable to the Viet Cong...
...90th Congress will on the American voting public. The President's most outspoken critics -- Senators Wayne-Morse, Ernest Gruening, J. William Fulbright -- are not probably continue to support the present Vietnam policy. But it will be less likely to back negotiations with the Viet Cong, bombing pauses, or other dove policies. It will also be hostile to the Great Society domestic programs...
SOCIALISM IN OUR COUNTRY, IN OUR TIME, droned one timeless banner stamped with a jaded peace dove. Though "fraternal guests" invited from 85 countries were unable to get U.S. visas, non-Communist newsmen were admitted for the first time-but only briefly and on condition that no pictures be taken of faces. Unfortunately, the gathering in Webster Hall looked more like a tintype from an early Dreiser novel than a revolutionary threat for the '60s. Most of the delegates were middle-aged to elderly whites, though there was a smattering of Negroes and a small youth contingent...
...broadcast over radio and TV, unquestionably held down the death toll. Most people had time to scurry for refuge. Residents of the luxurious Huntington Park apartment complex found safety in the basement sauna room as the entire second floor was being ripped away. At the Circus Tavern, pool players dove under tables, emerging safely minutes later from ten feet of debris. The legend of Burnett's Mound disappeared into the funnel. "I never did think it was true," said one tearful resident as he picked amidst the rubble of his home. "But I sure wanted...
...90th Congress will on the American voting public. The President's most outspoken critics -- Senators Wayne Morse, Ernest Gruening, J. William Fulbright -- are not probably continue to support the present Vietnam policy. But it will be less likely to back negotiations with the Viet Cong, bombing pauses, or other dove policies. It will also be hostile to the Great Society domestic programs...