Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were unmistakable signs last week of shifting stances both in Washington and in Saigon. Thieu is considering avenues to compromise that he cannot afford to discuss publicly for fear of alienating important hard-line factions among his political supporters. He again let it be known that he could agree to holding elections in South Viet Nam before 1971, the year they are now scheduled to take place, if that would speed a negotiated end to the war. The N.L.F. called for such special elections in its ten-point proposal early last month in Paris...
...unilateral disarmament."* While many Congressmen have called for reduction of U.S. troop commitments in Europe, none have seriously suggested that NATO or any other U.S. military alliance be dismantled. Less than three months ago, Senator J. William Fulbright accused Defense Secretary Melvin Laird of using a "technique of fear." Fulbright has given aid and comfort to neo-isolationists at various times, but he does not advocate unilateral disarmament or the breakup of U.S. alliances. The dominant new mood in Congress is one of sober questioning, and Nixon's intemperate remarks hit the wrong note...
...burly, brooding Ditto, who prowls the streets in a dashiki, arouses fear or hatred in many whites. Detroit's police and school officials see him as an ir responsible agitator. However, in the boardroom of New Detroit Inc., the city's branch of the antipoverty Urban Coalition, Ditto sits on a 40-member board with people like Henry Ford and the chairman of General Motors. There, Ditto's words-even if couched in the abrasive patois of the ghetto-are listened to carefully. Says William T. Patrick Jr., New Detroit president: "Frank Ditto...
Except in Southeast Asia and parts of Latin America and West Germany, public fear of Communism has noticeably declined. The change in the public climate offers an opportunity to the reformist parties. If they actually do achieve power through elections, the test for the reformists will be to show that Communism can indeed be the liberating, uplifting force that Marx envisioned and not the tyranny that the Soviets and Chinese made it. To judge from all past evidence, it would be dangerous and foolhardy for any Western voter to bet his liberty in the expectation that this will ever happen...
...course, this is because I fear the retribution of a puritanical God. If you enjoy it, it can't be good for you. But there's more...