Word: leader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sept. 14: Thieu announces that Major General Duong Van Minh ("Big Minh"), leader of anti-Diem coup in 1963, will return from exile to become a presidential adviser. Minh is one of few South Vietnamese deemed acceptable to Hanoi and N.L.F...
...Council, he flatly refused to consent to N.L.F. representation in Paris. For the moment, that was that. Thieu treads a delicate line. On the one hand are his hard-line rivals, ex-Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and Ky's militant allies; on the other, powerful neutralists like Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang. In this situation, Thieu cannot afford to countenance the N.L.F.'s claim to speak for all the people of South Viet...
Other dissidents will get their dissatisfaction on the books by writing in Eugene McCarthy, Black Panther Leader Eldridge Cleaver or Comedian Pat Paulsen. Another tactic is to vote only for congressional and gubernatorial candidates who reflect dissenting views. Among anti-Humphrey Democrats, the hope is that all this will help speed old-line party leaders out of power and permit insurgents to take over...
Other assorted candidates and non-candidates including Fred Halstead, Socialist Party Leader; Dick Gregory; Charlene Mitchell, Communist Party candidate; and comedian Pat Paulsen collectively captured more than 4.4 per cent...
...made. Rightly noting that this figure is still too low, General Foods has set for itself an even higher quota of 15%. The search for black talent has become so intense, in fact, that one agency is offering its employees a $50 finder's fee. This prompted Negro Leader James Farmer to observe: "I don't think we ought to let them have a Negro that cheaply. I think instead we ought to start ourselves a rent-a-Negro company...