Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aspirant for the office may inwardly feel that the stakes are not low, that the YR presidency is a step toward the big-time. YR execs often harbor a desire to run for office eventually, or to have an influence with those who do. That many past presidents of the club today staff large law firms of unknown names indicates the probable lack of base for this hope...
...Haiphong, and hit one supply route within nine miles of the Chinese border. A raid on Haiphong drew an official protest from Moscow, which claimed that a U.S. bomb had hit a barge only six feet from the Soviet freighter Pereslavl-Zalessky, moored in the city's harbor, severely damaging the Russian ship. The U.S. State Department apologized, but it noted that it had warned that ships entering Haiphong harbor ran the risk of damage despite the best efforts of U.S. pilots to prevent such incidents...
Many would like to hit De Gaulle right where it really hurts-square in the francs. Earlier this month, a party of Bostonians dressed as red Indians dumped francs into their harbor on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. Individual Americans are pointedly dropping France from their holiday tours, and some are refusing to fly Air France. For the first time, U.S. visitors to Britain in 1967 outnumbered tourists to France-by 100,000. Cote d'Azur hotel owners complained of a 20% slump in reservations last summer. Lately there have been some cancellations by American Jews incensed...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense or even the White House. In any case, the yes or no comes back within hours. Momyer makes no secret of the fact that he would like some of the targeting restrictions lifted, notably on Haiphong harbor and the Gia Long airfield. Of the handful of remaining major taboo targets, Gia Long has been spared because of its use by commercial planes, but it has also become the last safe haven for Hanoi's remaining 14 MIGs. Momyer has little use for the upcoming holiday bombing pause, noting...
...Japanese-bombed railway station in Shanghai, in films of Hitler's armies marching across Europe and scenes of the fall of Corregidor. Until TV showed the funeral of President Kennedy, nothing Americans saw in the newsreels had ever stirred them quite so much as the bombing of Pearl Harbor 26 years...