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KENNEDY ON TROOP COMMITMENTS. During the early months of his Administration, President John F. Kennedy tried to maneuver the South Vietnamese into requesting assistance from American troops. Kennedy dispatched then-Vice President Johnson to Viet Nam in May 1961 with orders to "encourage" President Ngo Dinh Diem to ask for...
The Orthodox Church suffered greatly in the last decade of Alexei's 25-year reign when Nikita Khrushchev forced half the country's churches to close to prove he was a hard-line Communist. Now a reform movement within Orthodoxy, seeking complete freedom from state controls, is bound...
VISTA has been a particular target for conservative criticism. Richard Nixon plainly wants to put his own stamp on the voluntary agencies begun by his Democratic predecessors, and the merger into Action, by absorbing VISTA into a larger, less controversial whole, may blunt the attack. Some think that the reorganization...
After hearing the tapes, Sadat called up Sharaf and told him to inform Gomaa "that I have accepted his resignation"-despite the fact that the Interior Minister had not submitted a resignation. Sharaf "wept on the telephone," Sadat recalled during his broadcast last week. "I said, 'When I lose...
At the beginning of the week, Mayday volunteers were camped in West Potomac Park near the Jefferson Memorial. Many came only for a rock festival and would have been, at most, passive onlookers at the closing down of "the war machine." The Justice Department and Washington Police Chief, Jerry V...