Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King's Horses. The Administration's oft-stated position is quite clear-cut: if Hanoi really wants the U.S. to ground its bombers, it need only make some move toward de-escalation in return. Until it does, as the President put it before 100 farm leaders last week, "all the king's horses and all the king's men are not going to move us out of our position." Moreover, United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg pointed out on the eve of his departure on a presumed peace mission to five Asian capitals, including Saigon...
...potential to be second only to the U.S. in building and selling reactors, fears that the treaty would handicap its nuclear development. Furthermore, the West Germans are afraid that the Russians would use the inspection clause to pry into West German plants, disrupt important research on the ground that it violated the treaty, and filch patents. The treaty, said Franz Josef Strauss, leader of the Bavarian branch of the Christian Democrats, "is a new Yalta of cosmic proportions,"-harking back to the wartime conference in which the Americans and Russians decided the fate of postwar Europe...
Having lost more than 2,000 men since the ground war resumed last month, the Communists were less anxious last week to stand and fight. The elusive nature of the enemy has rarely been better demonstrated than in the U.S.-led assault on War Zone C, a 1,000-sq.-mi. pocket of swampland that bulges into Cambodia. The area, 75 miles northwest of Saigon, has for 20 years been Communism's major stronghold in South Viet Nam, and is believed to contain the national headquarters of the Viet Cong. In the hope of getting the Communists to stand...
...began, most of them apparently fled across the border into Cambodia-giving the lie to Prince Norodom Sihanouk's statement last week that his country was not being used as a Viet Cong sanctuary. As the Americans, aided by South Vietnamese forces, moved cautiously through the area, the ground was still so hot from napalm that the troops were unable to crouch; the only survivors of the scorched earth seemed to be millions of aggressive red ants, which climbed over the troops and stung them as they advanced...
...spokesman for the Students for a Democratic Society said that plans for a protest never got off the ground because of the CIA's early cancellation. But he added that if the recruiters had come they probably would have been greeted by a picket line. Another possibility, he said, was for a large number of SDS members to request interviews with the recruiters in order to "give them a lot of flak...