Word: fishel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasoning one step further and make it look ridiculous. On Firing Line, TV Star Robert Vaughn started naming the people he thought had conspired to commit the U.S. to the defense of Ngo Dinh Diem's regime in South Viet Nam. "Joseph Buttinger, General Edward Lansdale, Wesley Fishel, Cardinal Spellman . ." Buckley broke in: "And the Holy Ghost?" With these tactics, Buckley often reduces his adversaries to nonverbal floundering. Novelist Nelson Algren simply gave up talking and started singing. "I want to turn you on, Bill," said Timothy Leary. "I want to get you to drop...
...East Lansing, M.S.U. officials were as irate as campus football fans on a losing Saturday. "A scurrilous and silly hatchet job," said Political Scientist Wesley Fishel, who headed the project from 1956 to 1958 and was "as close as friends can be" with Diem. Fishel conceded that the university knew all about the CIA men. "Anyway, they joined the project on our terms," he said. "While I was there, there was definitely no cloak-and-dagger stuff. They trained the Vietnamese police...
...Fishel said that he had not been happy about harboring the agents; nor had his successor, Political Scientist Ralph Smuckler. "It may not have been right to get into it," said Smuckler. "We were caught and felt we had to follow through...
...time they were befriended by Edward Fishel, owner of a small animal-feed processing plant, who hired Rafer's father as a handyman, his mother as a domestic, moved the family out of the boxcar and into a small house. Things went fine until the town's police chief told the Fishels to fire the Johnsons, then threatened Mrs. Johnson herself: "I don't want to see the sun set on any niggers in this town." The Fishels stood their ground, the Johnsons ignored the threats, and nothing further happened. The police chief later left...