Word: fulbright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raids defended American troops in Viet Nam-vanished when the last U.S. forces left Viet Nam two weeks ago. "Does the President assert-as kings of old -that as Commander in Chief he can order American forces anywhere for any purpose that suits him?" Senator J. William Fulbright demanded...
March 1: Hostages released; Senators McGovern, Kennedy, and Fulbright negotiate with AIM leaders...
...P.O.W. Colonel Risner said the protesters were responsible for the last year or two of his imprisonment-something the great majority of the American people always knew. Now would seem to be a good time for great protesters such as Senators Brooke, Fulbright, Church and McGovern to seek amnesty from the President and from the P.O.W.s for their considerable part in delaying the peace...
...transport. In March 1971, Archaeologist Ian Graham, a research fellow in Middle American archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum, entered La Naya, a Mayan site in Guatemala; looters opened fire, killing his guide Pedro Sierra. In Costa Rica, says Dr. Dwight Heath of Brown University, who spent a Fulbright year there in 1968-69, "One percent of the labor force was involved in illicit traffic in antiquities-which means there are more bootleggers in that little country than there are professional archaeologists in the whole world...
...between, there is the mixed opinion of the West Germans. Says Ulrich Littmann, executive director of the Fulbright Commission in Germany: "The German has an optically broken picture of the Americans. It's like a beam of light hitting the water. He thinks of the U.S. in terms of the people who sent men to the moon, the people who are portrayed in western movies and TV thrillers, the people who conducted a war in Viet Nam." The same German who goes out and throws a stone through the window of America House in protest of the bombing...