Word: fulbright
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...last week. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee rejected Career Diplomat G. McMurtrie Godley's nomination to be Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs. As Ambassador to Laos since 1969, the committee's majority decided, Godley had been less than cleanly. Chairman J. William Fulbright and some others believe that Godley was involved in running a secret war in Laos during his tenure, and was part of a fraternity of Indochina experts responsible for most of the American mistakes there. The committee emphasized that it did not question Godley's skills and was willing...
Martha, the unrepressed Southern belle, once took great pride in the fact that John Mitchell-her second husband, whom she married in 1957-was one of Nixon's closest advisers. Martha delighted in sounding off against anyone to the left of William McKinley -Senator J. William Fulbright, for example, should be "crucified." Few took any of this too seriously, for Martha had a certain wacky charm...
That supremacy has been in large measure ensured by the consistent support of the U.S. In recent years, the U.S. Senate has been a particularly strong backer of the Israeli cause-and last week was accused by one of its own members, William Fulbright, of being "subservient" to Israel...
...Fulbright was angry that the Senate had refused to pass an Administration trade bill giving the Soviet Union most-favored-nation tariff concessions. The Senate's objections centered on the "education tax" (as much as $30,000 per person) that Moscow has been imposing on educated Soviet Jews who emigrated to Israel. Fulbright and others did not think that the tax, an internal Soviet measure, was a legitimate U.S. concern. Nonetheless, the pressure paid off. Last week, in order to get the trade bill through the Senate, Moscow advised the U.S. that it was suspending the controversial...
Petric has been the director of the Academy of Theater/Radio/Film and Television at Belgrade University in Yugoslavia. During the past year he has also served as the Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Museum of Modern Art's Film Study Center in New York...