Word: existance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Lessons. Why, in a war in which some 3,800 soldiers on both sides die each week, had the killing of one civilian become such a cause célèbre? Partly because Chuyen's slaying exposed the tensions that exist among U.S. agencies carrying out spying activities in Viet Nam and along its borders. Chuyen was employed as an agent and interpreter by the Special Forces, which had assumed some intelligence-gathering duties long the prerogative of the CIA. The Berets suspected him of being a double agent and shot him, claiming that...
...proliferation pact (which Kiesinger resisted on the ground that it could leave Germany at a disadvantage in peaceful nuclear research). Brandt's main task will be to look eastward. He and Scheel are agreed on an approach to East Germany, which the Christian Democrats preferred to pretend did not exist. In hopes of easing the economic lot of the people in the East, Brandt aims to stop short of full diplomatic recognition but to seek closer travel and communications links and trade opportunities with the East Germans...
Nothing better illustrates the tenor of the trial than the following exchange, in which the prosecutor "proved" that anti-Semitism "cannot exist in our country...
...other speakers described the effects of the war on the nation and on Harvard. Marc Roberts '64, assistant professor of Economics, said that "the Faculty must stand for some things." If the war does not present "sufficient moral issues to prompt our action, then such moral issues do not exist." he said...
...serious and extraordinarily delicate undertaking, but people are rushing into it mindlessly. Even as we try carefully to integrate encounter with university education, there is a chance that the New College might degenerate into a far-out headquarters for home-made encounter groups. The same dangers exist in other areas. We want to avoid meaningless frivolity, but it won't be easy...