Word: fighting
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obstacles, unite your efforts, fight to the very end, annihilate the enemy...
QUOTE: "I could conceive of no greater tragedy than for the U.S. to (fight...
Diplomats argue persuasively that a policy based on this view would leave the U.S. to confront Soviet expansionism all alone. No country would enter or maintain an alliance with a U.S. that specifically refused to fight in its defense. But in the real world, an outright Soviet attack against a country that the U.S. is committed by treaty to defend is quite unlikely. The decision whether or not to fight most probably would be posed by a Communist threat to a friendly nation that is not formally an ally. And then the threat might well be raised not by open...
Paradoxically, though, Johnson might well have been able to win public support for a bigger war than he was willing to fight. As late as February 1968, at the height of the Tet offensive, one poll found 53% favoring stronger U.S. military action, even at the risk of a clash with the Soviet Union or China, vs. only 24% opting to wind down the war. Rusk insists that the Administration was right not to capitalize on this sentiment. Says he: "We made a deliberate decision not to whip up war fever in this country. We did not have parades...
...called Fairness in Media, which launched a campaign in January to buy CBS stock in hopes of changing what it considers to be the network's liberal bias. Fairness in Media obtained a list of stockholders two weeks ago, but the names came too late to wage a proxy fight at the company's annual meeting next week. Turner has met twice with the group's representatives, but the two as yet have not linked forces...