Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...factor: exhaustion of patience with the war, doubt about the pace of Richard Nixon's efforts to end it. Some participants had specific ideas on how to end the war. A five-point proposal came last week from Yale's President Kingman Brewster Jr. and New Haven Mayor Richard Lee, who jointly called for an immediate cease-fire followed within twelve months by withdrawal of all U.S. forces; elections supervised by "a coalition body" dominated by neither side; aid to any South Vietnamese wishing to leave his country; and U.S. economic assistance for rebuilding Viet...
...ROBERT LEE WOLFF, Coolidge Professor of History and chairman of the Faculty's conservative caucus, held his regular class. Slightly more than half his students attended. Wolff said that "if I stopped lecturing every time I was full of moral outrage, would not lecture at all, because I'm full of moral outrage every...
...Yale, an unexpected 50,000 gathered at noon at the New Haven Green to hear speeches by Rep. Allard Lowenstein (D.N.Y.); Rev. Joseph Duffy, president of the A.D.A.; New Haven Mayor Richard C. Lee, former Secretary of Interior Stuart Udall, who is currently professor at the Yale Forestry School; President Kingman Brewster; and Rev. William Sloan Coffin. Brewster, who has been a vocal opponent of the war, told the crowd. "Let us be more honest in the pursuit of peace than we have been in the pursuit...
...FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10:30 p.m.). As Peggy Lee prepares for a nightclub appearance at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, the steps leading to opening night are recorded, with a delectable lot of Miss Lee's singing along...
Commonplace Killings. Unsatisfactory and untidy as that ending was, it stemmed from a growing conviction in Washington that the impending courts-martial of the Berets would have been even messier. Two of the nation's most publicized lawyers, Edward Bennett Williams and F. Lee Bailey, had been hired by the defendants and were poised to portray their clients as victims of nasty rivalries among U.S. intelligence-gathering agencies. They would have blistered the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, General Creighton Abrams, for initiating the charges and would have exposed jealousies between the regular Army and the elite Special Forces...