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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After a G.I. witness described on television what he had seen at My Lai, Colorado Senator Peter Dominick asked: "What kind of country do we have when that kind of garbage gets put on the air?" A more pertinent question was raised by William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "This incident can cause grave concern all over the world," he said, "as to what kind of country we are." Countless U.S. citizens, whether foes or critics...
...Nixon's Washington is Barbara Howar, a 35 year-old divorcee who played the same game in the Johnson years. Lady Bird cashiered her after Barbara gave one interview too many about the Johnsons. Now Barbara appears all over Washington, often on the arm of White House Foreign Affairs Adviser Henry Kissinger, who rather improbably has become one of the liveliest figures of the new Washington society...
...Administration is also asking for a "clear statement of congressional intent" on eliminating domestic protectionist devices, notably the 1933 "Buy American" legislation, which prevents the Federal Government from purchasing foreign goods unless the price is more than 6% below that of comparable U.S. products. Repealing the law would help the Administration to press foreign countries to end equally ingenious barriers to trade, including European border taxes, health regulations and artificial technical restrictions...
Much of Nixon's tough new trade policy bears the imprint of Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, who calls it the first "fullscale attack" against "covert forms of protectionism which discriminate against American exports." In a talk last week to the National Foreign Trade Convention in Manhattan, Stans also promised U.S. exporters additional measures of practical aid. One would add some $750 million to the Export-Import Bank's funds. Exporters can now borrow only limited amounts at the bank's 6% interest rate, and must finance the rest of their sales with private loans...
...resumed his career in Mexico, where he made his landmark in the Cinema of Cruelty, Los Olvidados, a fierce, searing lament for the Mexican poor. The cinema, he claimed, was "most reminiscent of the work of the mind during sleep"-and he kept on dreaming onscreen. Soon foreign film makers-and avant-garde American ones-began to imitate his trancelike style...