Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words are not, as one might readily assume, those of a Latin American politician disgruntled with the U.S. They are Nelson Rockefeller's-and they lie at the core of a report that may well shape Washington's Latin America policy for years to come. The report was the product of a 20-nation journey made by the New York Governor last summer to help the new Nixon Administration reassess and reinvigorate a shaky Latin American policy. Rockefeller's survey trip was beset by anti-American demonstrations and violence. Indeed, some Latin Americans complained that the effort...
...That's one of the reasons I decided not to have it done in Boston. I was talking to a friend and he told me if I walked into a psychiatrist's office here looking even relatively self-assured, I would get turned down. I wasn't going to lie and say I was about to commit suicide. And I didn't have any record of mental illness. Besides, I heard that there was a chance that they might contact my parents, and I couldn't risk that. They didn't ask for parental consent in London, Just a letter...
...people realized that the Viet Cong would kill them, regardless of political belief." That fearful thought haunts many South Vietnamese, particularly those who work for their government or for the Americans. With the U.S. withdrawal under way, the massacre of Hue might prove a chilling example of what could lie ahead...
...propose a general criticism of the uses of social science in the United States, but quite another to verify this diagnosis for a particular entity like the Center for International Affairs. While constructive criticism of the Center is likely to reveal considerable room for improvement, it may not lie in the directions indicated...
...Vietnamese war has indeed revealed corporate America in all its ghastly infirmity and, I would add, its systemic cruelty. The American economic system is gradually destroying us; in the end our salvation may lie in our destroying...