Word: foreigner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those who saw hints of a "new Nixon" in the President's past statements on foreign affairs have now had their hopes laid to rest. The man who spoke so the nation three nights ago was firmly a product of the 1950's. In President Nixon's eyes, we are still the defenders of "peace and freedom" abroad. We are still scrambling from firefight to firefight in a righteous struggle against those "great powers who have not yet abandoned their roles of world conquest." The Communist Monolith rides again, and the dominoes clink and totter on all sides; in Thailand...
...demands the immediate withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam and supports the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, These principles are a firm basis for mobilizing further support throughout the country and a foundation for the growing movement against the present nature of American foreign policy...
...projects deal with applied weapons research-the Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vchicle (MIRV), the ABM, the Moving Target Indicator, and the Helicopter Project. MIRV is an attempt to develop a first-strike nuclear capability. The U.S. could use the threat of this capability to aid its foreign policy. Both MIRV and ABM are enormous subsidies to the defense industries, and as such point to the distorted priorities of American corporate capitalism...
...three other projects are in the social sciences-Project Cambridge. Project Com-Com, and the International Communism Project. Each of these projects, the last of which is less important than the other two, involves research and applied technology that would be used in the aid of American foreign policy...
...other thought concerns the CFIA. I have long disagreed with Mr. Bowie on the major questions of foreign and military policy. This has not been passive argument between establishment types. As it has carried into public life it has involved sharp political infighting. But during much of the period of our controversy, Mr. Bowie's position on the Cold War and Vietnam has been that of the majority. Those of us who disagreed were greatly in the minority. On occasion we were cited as the agents of imperialism- in this case Communist imperialism. Had we been suppressed our position would...