Word: interpreting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boot its errors almost as far as its successes. There was the Bay of Pigs. CIA failed to interpret properly the consistent East German warnings that preceded the Berlin Wall. The agency made a foolish attempt to bribe security police in Singapore...
...Franklin Konigsberg of New York City, who own Sylvie, are supposed to take Fahlstrom's original arrangement of these items on the panel and rearrange them to suit their personality or mood. Explains Fahlstrom: "I want them to participate in it, to interpret it. In the present situation, people want to discover themselves. They live less and less by a set of dogmas, political or religious. They probe the experience and standards to which they are exposed and take only what is useful to them...
...believe that continued piecemeal devastation of the North could, in the indefinite future, bring the enemy to his knees-and ruin Ho Chi Minh's bargaining position. But if this is true, then the President is disingenuous when he predicts meaningful concessions from both sides. North Vietnam could only interpret this attitude as a valid U.S. desire for total victory...
Several CO's have hit on a common approach, though. They privately interpret "war in any form" to mean "war in any form that it can take, given the international environment while I am eligible for the draft." They proceed to note that the nuclear stalemate makes World War II situations out of the question. The nature of war has changed. The only type of warfare conceivable under present circumstances is in guerrilla or counter-guerrilla intervention, which they say is by nature unjust. If the only possible type of war is the Vietnam form, the reasoning goes...
...interpret the law, the Assembly voted for an independent judiciary, which will operate on an equal footing with the legislative and executive branches and come under the jurisdiction of a Supreme Court. In the past, South Viet Nam's judiciary has been independent only in theory; in fact, its decisions were heavily influenced by the government...