Word: fulbrights
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...Senate side of the Hill, Foreign Relations Committee chairman J. William Fulbright will probably retaliate against the President's authorization of development loans to nineteen additional countries. Under a stipulation in last year's aid bill, only ten countries were supposed to receive development loans, although the President could up this number, "in the national interest." Fulbright feels the President overextended his privilege...
Rusk received some assistance in his own confrontation from South Vietnamese Foreign Minister Tran Van Do, who wrote a 1,300-word letter to Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright, warning that the Arkansan's "unjust" criticism of the U.S. war effort was grist for Hanoi's propaganda mills and inviting him to Saigon-which he has yet to visit. Fulbright, however, seemed fully occupied in Washington with the latest round in the hearings on Viet Nam before his Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The sessions followed a familiar pattern. Retired General James Gavin, who last year urged...
...Wisconsin's Democratic Senator Gaylord Nelson deplored "an alarming trend in this country toward the use of police-state tactics." Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy introduced a resolution asking for a "select committee" to probe CIA. McCarthy's proposal drew support from Nelson and William Fulbright, but at week's end congressional leaders turned thumbs down on a probe, arguing that there was enough surveillance of CIA by Administration watchdogs and oversight committees in both houses...
Viet Nam brings out the most apocalyptic of Fulbright's denunciations. "We see the Viet Cong, who cut the throats of village chiefs, as savage murderers," he says, but we see "American flyers who incinerate unseen women and children with napalm as valiant fighters for freedom." Such oversimplified formulations do little to make Fulbright's thesis credible. What distinguishes Viet Nam from every earlier American war is remarkable restraint and the very lack of jingoism that provides Fulbright with an audience...
Stridency or Magnanimity? Indeed, it is oversimplification that destroys this elegantly written and highly provocative book. There are plenty of real faults in U.S. policy to attack, but Fulbright spends more of his time attacking a gross caricature of U.S. policy. Americans, he charges, consider themselves "God's avenging angels" in the fight against Communism-but who really feels this way? Fulbright argues convincingly that Communism is no longer entirely evil-but that is a fact most Americans grasped nearly a decade ago. He glooms on and on about the high moral and material cost of the Southeast Asian...