Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work real change requires two things, according to Goodwin. First, we must recruit leadership whose idealism is convincing. A sense of restored national purpose, as in the Kennedy years, would provide the impetus for broader control of industrial and technological growth. (Idealism will be scarce so long as American foreign policy is blundering and violent...
Kremlin Image. For Gomulka, the squabbling among his visitors provided a welcome change in agenda from the showdown involving his leadership that seemed inevitable three months ago. His challenger was Mieczyslaw Moczar, chief of Poland's secret police and head of its influential partisans' organization, who had exploited several areas of Polish dissatisfaction to gain impressive leverage for himself. Chief among these issues was the Kremlin's overbearing influence, which has kept the economy geared to heavy industry and Russian-bound exports at a time when Poles, like other Soviet-bloc countries, were demanding consumer goods. Moczar...
...conference in which the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front would be permitted to speak for itself, rather than through Hanoi's delegates. But after several days, he announced that he would let his representatives come, provided South Viet Nam took over from the U.S. the leadership of the allied delegation and dealt directly with the North Vietnamese, not the N.L.F., at the negotiating table...
Looking back, it now appears that although Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker may have thought that President Nguyen Van Thieu was firmly pinned down, the Vietnamese leadership had never been completely committed. Thieu may have told Bunker that he favored a bombing-halt communiqué-indeed, the U.S. Embassy sent such verbatim quotes on to Washington-but the deal was never really confirmed. This, in turn, suggests that the Americans may have missed subtle South Vietnamese hints prior to the halt; after all, Saigon never liked to give the American ambassador a flat no on anything. When Thieu finally...
ATLANTA--The Southern Christian Leadership Conference doesn't plan to pay a $71,000 bill presented by the Federal government for the cost of cleaning up the government-owned site of Resurrection City, headquarters of last June's Poor People's Campaign...