Word: interpreting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where, he feels, his intimate knowledge of the Viet Cong should be put to use. To him, he explained, the enemy is no longer "a faceless mass, a group of screaming individuals. Having watched them over an extended period of time, I will be able to think ahead to interpret their actions, in many cases to foresee a lot of things which they might...
...interpret him, sheer heresy...
Hemophilic Heart. Among other things, says Friendly, the Fifth was designed to prevent a defendant from "being dragged, kicking and screaming, to the witness stand." But Friendly does not see how the Supreme Court can interpret it as meaning the state cannot compel a person to produce documents and records relevant to his case. "It takes a heart more hemophilic than mine," says he, "to find cruelty" in a subpoena to require racketeers to produce their books. Yet the Supreme Court has barred just such an act under the self-incrimination clause...
...this a genuine lull, or had the Communists been hurt so badly by Abrams' successful tactics that they were merely pulling back to regroup, as they have done so often in the past? Many in the Johnson Administration seemed willing to interpret the lull as a deliberate signal from Hanoi that the North Vietnamese wanted to move on to a new phase in the Paris peace negotiations. A minority, centered in the Pentagon but also including Rostow and Rusk, held out in the absence of firm and far-reaching North Vietnamese concessions. Said one U.S. diplomat: "I have always...
...same attitude in evaluating the signs of reduced military activity in the South. The North Vietnamese pullback could merely reflect the impact of recent allied military successes, but the fact remains that Hanoi has never before withdrawn troops on so large a scale. Why not, ask some officials, interpret this move as a signal that Hanoi is attempting to offer reciprocity for a bombing pause? If this is not a signal, they ask further, what...