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...next president should be prepared to intervene more forcefully in international politics and "to attend to the immediate economic interests of the United States," Robert F. Ellsworth, Reagan adviser and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, said yesterday...
...exhilarating sense of intellectual risk, their glimpses of the future seem wholly prophetic. Time and again in LACMA's exhibition, one sees paintings and sculpture, modest in scale though not in ambition, that anticipate Western artists by half a century. Ivan Kliun (1873-1943) had most of Ellsworth Kelly's best ideas by 1917. Olga Rozanova's Color Construction, Green on White, 1917, a vertical stripe down the middle of a field, is a Barnett Newman "zip" 30 years before Newman, and her exquisite collages in the suite entitled The Universal War, 1916, with their energetically dancing...
...cancer; in Washington, D.C. As U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (1961-64), "Silent Sam" failed in his efforts to persuade Seoul's military regime to establish democratic institutions, but succeeded spectacularly in helping to lay the groundwork for the country's industrial boom. As deputy to Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker in South Viet Nam (1968-72), he administered a policy he described as "one of buying as much time as we could" after the U.S. had abandoned its doomed attempt "to win the war with money and people instead of brains...
...meeting on April 22, three tactical options were considered: doing nothing (the preferred course of the State and Defense departments); attacking the sanctuaries with South Vietnamese forces only (my recommendation); and using whatever forces were necessary to neutralize all of the base areas, including American combat forces, recommended by Ellsworth Bunker, our Ambassador in Saigon, General Creighton Abrams, our commander in Viet Nam. and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
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