Word: key
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, the South Vietnamese might develop, as the Koreans did in the 1950s, into effective fighters. So some of the more optimistic U.S. planners argue-possibly ignoring not only the differences between the two wars but between the two peoples and their ethnic characteristics. At any rate, a key element in the Vietnamization program may be time. If Richard Nixon, in response to domestic pressure, feels compelled to accelerate U.S. withdrawals, the program could fail. If the pullout is gradual, it might work. "It is a very hopeful idea," said a Pentagon official of Vietnamization. "It is the only...
...Clue. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was low-keyed but also off-key; in a long statement on regional security, he demanded the withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Viet Nam and of Israelis from the occupied territories, but implied that North Vietnamese units should be allowed to remain in the South and Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia. Most disappointingly, he gave no definite clue that Russia was finally willing to begin talks with the U.S. on limiting strategic weapons. He even rejected Nixon's proposal to agree immediately to impose an embargo on arms shipments to the Middle East...
...Christian Democrats. The fading Free Democrats will probably draw less than the 9.5% that they polled in 1965, while the ultra-rightist National Democrats (see following story) may draw 5%. The Communists will undoubtedly fall short of the 5% necessary for a party to win representation in the Bundestag. Key to all speculation is the size of the undecided vote-and it may be as high...
...wake of student unrest, a key issue on U.S. campuses this fall is how the universities can achieve more effective democratic "governance." Last week two of the nation's leading universities announced plans for reform...
...Brewster sees it, the key threat on campus today is cynicism-and understandably so. "It is hard not to be cynical when so much of politics seems dominated by string-pulling interest groups. The rare alignment of the lobbyist with the public interest seems more the exceptional coincidence than the rule. It is not easy to keep faith in Adam Smith's 'unseen hand' in an economy so largely dominated by conglomerate giants. With mass communications concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free marketplace seems like a hollow...