Word: interests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some people in the Resistance really thought that we would be able to stop Hershey's machine. Hershey's real problem though was not how to find 500,000 men to send to Vietnam but how to channel the other 11,000,000 into activities for the national interest. The Resistance strategy was bound to fail but a lot was learned about what not to do in the future...
Difference in Nuance. This is hardly a new policy. As long ago as the Open Door policy of the turn of the century, the U.S. conceived of its interest as the prevention of any one power's domination of Asia. Nor is it new even in terms of the 1960s; it is a reversion to the pre-1965 approach of attempting to avoid involvement in civil strife. The Johnson Administration justified large-scale intervention in Viet Nam on the basis of North Viet Nam's actions. No one in the White House then dared speak of the conflict...
...rare to set a pattern; if anything, the cur rent trend indicates a discouraging deterioration. But the scattered alliances formed thus far suggest exciting possibilities - and a clear challenge for unions, corporations and politicians at every level to work toward an atmosphere of tolerance based upon rational self-interest...
...such confrontation is to be avoided in the long run, along with even deeper division between the races, for gotten America must be remembered in ways that unite rather than anger. Lower-middle-class whites need to see that their long-range interest lies not in defending the status quo but in organizing themselves to change it; the problem is how to convince white workers that social change can benefit them and not just Negroes. Blacks, too, need to recognize that their self-interest lies not in sterile separatism but in new coalitions with working-class whites. The nation...
...basic flaws in ABC's tax-saving system, the state's fiduciary experts explained, were that: 1) the founder of the trust never really relinquished his control or interest in it; and 2) he never redly intended it to be set up exclusively for charitable purposes. Though ABC knew that this was contrary to federal statutes governing tax-free foundations, the state charged, the outfit tried to conceal the fact by enjoining its clients to absolute secrecy. "The cleverness of the scheme," said California Deputy Attorney General H. Warren Siegel, "was to get you to join by saying...