Word: fulbrights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also this week, the University received a letter from the State Department demanding quarterly reports on the activities of students who have qualified for government funds-such as Fulbright scholarships-for traveling overseas...
...instance a few years ago Fulbright called us. asking for a study to prove that if the U.S. got out of Vietnam, China would invade within two weeks. We told him that we weren't sure that anyone would be interested in doing the research: and that we couldn't predict that we could prove what he wanted. He said. "The Senate won't be very happy, 'and hung...
...since they could explain that they merely wished to have new questions looked into. Only four Republicans have publicly announced that they would vote against Carswell on the Senate floor, but burial in committee now looks attractive to a dozen G.O.P. Senators, maybe as many as 15. Democrat William Fulbright of Arkansas, a onetime law teacher who voted for Haynsworth, joined the defectors from Carswell while protesting that he does not concur in "the lack of enthusiasm in some circles for the appointment of a Southern judge...
FELLOWSHIPS. The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded about 25 grants to blacks out of 186. Since 1952, about 35 blacks received Fulbright scholarships in the arts out of a total of 968. One bright spot was the Opportunity Fellowships granted in art by the John Hay Whitney Foundation, set up specifically to help disadvantaged students. Out of 74 awarded, 32 went to blacks...
...terms of the Viet Nam conflict, last week's developments appear to leave Washington with one questionable plus -Cambodia-and one probable minus -Laos. Whatever may happen in Laos, the U.S. is extremely unlikely to use ground troops-as Senator Fulbright informed the world last week by releasing secret testimony by Secretary of State William Rogers. Rogers said that the Nixon Administration had "no present plans" to send G.I.s to Laos even if Communist troops threatened to overrun it. Nonetheless, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird indicated that the U.S. would probably continue to bomb the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Cambodia...