Word: junes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the 1970 Cambodian operation, Brian McDonnell, a young pacifist, pledged to fast until the operation was called off or he had been able to put his case to the President. Early in June 1970, on a mutual friend's suggestion, I called on McDonnell, without White House permission, at the simple residence in Georgetown where he was staying. I was moved by his sincerity even while I disagreed with his conclusions...
...toast was yet another reminder to Washington that oil wealth has given Mexico a new clout, which López Portillo is quite willing to use when it suits his purpose. In June a Mexican exploratory well in the Bay of Campeche exploded, uncorking millions of barrels of crude, some of which has washed up on beaches in Texas. The U.S. has argued that Mexico should help pay cleanup costs. Last August, Robert C. Krueger, who was designated Special Ambassador for Mexican Affairs to assist Ambassador Patrick Lucey in overseeing the broad range of issues that have arisen between...
...increases now occur with taunting frequency. Since last December the cartel has increased prices by 61%. Now Nigeria, Algeria and Libya appear to be preparing to raise their price of oil by as much as $5 per bbl. If they do, the $23.50 "ceiling" that OPEC set only last June will be shattered, and the cost of all petroleum products, including heating oil, will move up yet another notch...
Nixon set a June 30 cutoff date for the Cambodian incursion. Eventually, 32,000 U.S. ground troops were involved. But, Kissinger says, casualties "never reached more than a quarter of the 800 a week that Laird had feared," and dropped sharply after that. At the time, Kissinger estimated that the action would delay Hanoi's next major offensive by six to eight months; Sir Robert Thompson, the British expert on guerrilla warfare, figured that it would set the North Vietnamese back by as much as two years. Thompson proved to be right. But that did not help to defuse...
...mining making themselves felt, the North Vietnamese army was stalled. Our twin summits, in Peking and Moscow, had undoubtedly engendered a sense of isolation in the North. And they had greatly strengthened Nixon's domestic position, thus removing Hanoi's key weapon of leverage on us. In June we received the first inconclusive hints that Hanoi might be engaged in cease-fire planning. By the middle of September, the evidence was unmistakable...