Word: interests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newspapers, for the most part, agreed prior to the television speech that Kennedy had some explaining to do. The usually sympathetic Boston Globe stated editorially: "It is in his own best interest as well as the public's that all the facts should come out." The Cleveland Press, reviewing the questions left unanswered by Ted's police station statement, declared: "The public is entitled to a better explanation than it has had yet." For all its smooth carpentry, the television statement did not dispel most such doubts and questions. The New York Times, which had begun its coverage...
Nixon's mission, in large measure, is to reassure Asian allies that the U.S. will remain a Pacific power with interest in the future of Asia. However, that concern will be balanced with caution. For President Nixon, the overriding consideration is that there be no more Viet Nams...
...taxes at all in 1967, Ways and Means approved a "minimum tax" plan that would require everyone to pay taxes on at least half his income. Combining proposals put forward by both the Johnson and Nixon administrations, the plan modifies the exemptions on capital gains and municipal-bond interest and eliminates the tax shelter provided by hobby-farm losses...
...comparison with those suffered during the June 1967 hostilities. But the prospects for peace remained dim. All the efforts of the peacemakers, including the U.N. and the Big Four (the United States, the U.S.S.R., Britain and France), produced little progress. Neither Israel nor Egypt, the major antagonists, displayed any interest in compromise. On the contrary, both were intent on expanding the scale of their attacks. The pattern was clear: strike and counterstrike, with each major blow more vicious than the last...
...Commonwealth Secretary Michael Stewart, who spoke in the best tradition of diplomatic vagueness about it before the House of Commons. The report, he said, was "far-ranging" and drew "important conclusions," but the government would give no endorsement before contemplating it further. It was, nonetheless, a topic of some interest to British diplomats-and a few seemed to get the message instantly. Last week, Sir Evelyn Shuckburgh, Her Majesty's Ambassador at Rome, pulled up in the embassy Rolls (his requirements apparently still justify one) at a ceremony on the fashionable Via Veneto to mark the opening of Italy...