Word: maneuverers
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In the narrow sense, Lyndon Johnson could function superlatively under stress. He could rap out hard decisions, maneuver in delicate foreign squabbles, intervene effectively in complex labor disputes. But in the less tangible sphere of sustaining the nation's confidence, understanding the drift of opinion, coping with articulate critics...
The exercise, called Reforger I, will be the largest American maneuver in Europe in the past five years. Its aim is to demonstrate the U.S.'s ability, in the event of a crisis, to airlift swiftly large numbers of U.S. troops to the NATO theater. The flown-in army...
Though the Soviets sent 200,000 soldiers into Czechoslovakia only five months ago, they professed outrage at the comparatively modest influx of 12,000 U.S. troopers. Tass, the Soviet news agency, attacked Reforger I as "a new provocative plot." Elaborating on that theme, Izvestia, Moscow's evening newspaper, warned...
Professor Alan Heimert chocked off the potential unpleasantness with a motion, reminiscent in its face-saving ingenuity of the diplomatic maneuver used to free the Pueblo crew. But whether the Faculty actually overturned the Ad Board or merely amended its recommendation with an innovation the board could not have proposed...
As regards yesterday's maneuver, it may quite possibly develop that McCarthy did the right and honorable thing despite unfortunate side-effects. The full story, if it ever gets out, may even produce a clear and defensible reason for McCarthy's support of Long. But the serenity of the nation...