Word: gavin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President willing to accept retired General James Gavin's theory that U.S. troops should pull back to a series of coastal enclaves. This notion is chiefly supported by Pundit Walter Lippmann, former Korean War Commanding General Matthew Ridgway, who has long argued against committing U.S. troops to the Asian
...less predictable argument was advanced by retired Army General (and ex-Ambassador to France) James M. Gavin. In a letter to Harper's Magazine, Gavin volunteered his "military-technical" judgment that the U.S. should stop bombing North Viet Nam and limit its military commitment on the ground to holding several "enclaves on the coast." This strategy struck Pentagon officials as militarily unsound, because it would allow the Communists to build their forces virtually unhampered, and as politically naive, because the U.S. presence in South Viet Nam would thus resemble a colonialist role...
Once the cover story was scheduled, Saporiti and Gavin Scott, who is joining the Madrid staff after a three-year stint as Buenos Aires bureau chief, went to work. Over the next several weeks, together with the bureau's Jean Bratton, they covered the countryside, interviewed scores of Spaniards, high and low, to get a wide-angle look at the new Spain. For two weeks they were joined by Writer John Blashill, who was TIME'S correspondent in Madrid for four years (1956-60). To catch the visual aspects, Senior Editor Peter Bird Martin, who handles color projects...
Kenneth Deitch '60, Kirkland coach, relies on three junior backs and a sophomore speedster for his offensive punch. Joe Gavin, Bruce Corker and Fred Golinko, all juniors, and Dave Black handle Kirkland's running chores. Deitch believes defense is paramont in the intrumural league. "A club that scores a touchdown and one half per game is very likely to win," he says...
...paper work springing from "the bureaucratic necessity that everyone has to write so much to justify his existence" (Ambassador to Kenya William Attwood), while working under an overall policy based on "the lowest anti-Communist denominator" (Professor Hans Morgenthau) with a surplus of "pedestrian people" (former Ambassador James Gavin) headed by a Secretary with an "irrevocably conventional mind" (Arthur Schlesinger...