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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...missiles. Although the U.S. could destroy China as a modern society even more easily than it could the Soviet Union, a touch of yellow-menace fever has set in. "The Chinese are different," argues one general. "They have no regard for human life. Imagine if the Red Guards had got their hands on a couple of ICBMs!" At the same time, the Russians resisted Lyndon Johnson's initial attempts to open negotiations aimed at checking the nuclear-arms race. Moscow made no secret of the fact that it was going ahead with its own ABM. As early as 1962, Nikita...
Vindictiveness is not one of Hubert Humphrey's vices. Loquacity certainly is. During his first lecture as a professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, the former Vice President got on the subject of Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley. Looking back at his presidential campaign, Humphrey commented that the riots during the Chicago convention were a "tragedy" and "I was a victim." Among numerous other reflections, he observed that Mayor Daley "didn't exactly break his heart...
...carried Cook County for Humphrey by 220,000," he boasted. "I hope the good former Vice President would look at the figures." Humphrey may indeed have looked at the figures, which also show that Daley did substantially better by the two previous Democratic candidates. For John Kennedy he got 99,000 more votes in Cook County; for Lyndon Johnson, 421,000 more than Humphrey in Cook County...
...only clear-cut aspect of the conspiracy case against retired New Orleans Businessman Clay Shaw was the verdict. After pumping the case for two years in public and six weeks in the courtroom, District Attorney Jim Garrison got less than an hour of the jury's time in deliberation before they unanimously acquitted Shaw of plotting to kill President Kennedy. A less obsessed prosecutor might have reasoned from those circumstances that the jury believed he had no case. Not Big Jim. Said he: "The jury verdict simply indicates that the American people don't want to hear...
...that the Soviet response was almost a drill routine. The Russian station commander for the area, Senior Lieutenant Strelnikov, took seven of his men and walked out to meet the Chinese. He intended, says Moscow, to protest their intrusion on Soviet territory and ask them to leave. He never got the chance. As the two groups neared each other, the Chinese opened fire. Strelnikov and his men were killed-"literally shot at point-blank by the Chinese provocateurs," according to the Soviet communique. At the same time, the Chinese gunners across the river opened fire at the Soviet border guards...