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Seemingly undaunted by last year's unsuccessful bid for class marshal, Miss Levine, presently in India of a Fulbright teaching fellowship, is now under attack from the Irlian government for what are teamed "Anti-Indian" activities...
...chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William Fulbright is in a unique position to know what is happening in the world-and manages to sound that way. Nonetheless, in Canberra last week, on his way to a Commonwealth parliamentary conference in New Zealand, the usually oracular Fulbright shocked proud Australians by admitting he was "not aware" of Australia's commitment (1,550 men) to Viet Nam. In any case, he added loftily, he did not favor "great wars." Sensitive Aussies, who have been divided on their own role in the war, reacted predictably. Snapped Labor M.P. Albert...
...facts" the President Johnson promised the American people, when he sent troops to the Dominican Republic, still lie in the locked files of the State Department and the Senate. The President has refused to release the testimony his own officials gave to Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee last summer. Hoping to keep that record secret, he has also withheld the State Department's white paper on the same subject...
Specifically, eight months of bombing North Vietnam have chiefly been intended to prove to Hanoi that we are not about to be driven out of South Vietnam and that the Communists can hope for no better than a negotiates peace. Surely the point has been made by now. Senator Fulbright has suggested that the daily bomb runs temporarily be ended in order to persuade the North Vietnamese to negotiate. This offers the United States an escape from continued bombing which may be a serious strategic and psychological error...
Critics of U.S. actions in the Dominican Republic, notably Arkansas' Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright, charge that the U.S. has destroyed the concept of nonintervention and has set a perilous precedent for acting against any Latin American movement into which Communists have insinuated themselves. Last week Under Secretary of State Thomas C. Mann, chief architect of hemisphere policy, set the record straight...