Word: melvin
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Despite the earnestness of Kissinger's trip, that rearmament duel fed fears that the Nixon Administration's most impressive accomplishment, relaxation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., might be in grave jeopardy. Much of the week's early rhetoric was hardly encouraging. Presidential Adviser Melvin Laird complained publicly to correspondents that "the only manner in which détente can be proven is by deeds, not words, and the Soviet Union has not been performing as if détente were here." A recognition that the new relationship was an enveloping issue in the crisis was echoed...
Sack swallows these abstractions whole, yet the characters in his book are concrete enough, and very real indeed. Varoujan Demirgian is an ex-G.I. in Viet Nam who thought he had a problem-he was there for a year, says Sack, without ever killing a Communist. Robert Melvin is a black Viet veteran now totally committed to working his way up the executive ladder at a Madison Avenue advertising agency. Another black, Vantee Thompson, came home from search-and-destroy missions to find himself on riot-control duty in Baltimore, his own people becoming as hard to understand...
...series of what Agnew Press Secretary J. Marsh Thompson calls "heart-to-heart talks." Reston, unable to secure a private interview with Richard Nixon since the Oregon primary in 1968, has used his private détente with Agnew to stay abreast of Administration thinking. (Henry Kissinger and Melvin Laird have also "kept in touch," Reston says.) Agnew, in turn, has benefited from rather gentle treatment in Reston's influential column. Last February, for instance, Reston quoted approvingly a remark Agnew made in a speech before the Minnesota Press Association: "The fact is that the Nixon Administration...
...Melvin H. Evans, 56, of the Vir gin Islands, a former physician and a Republican who was appointed to of fice by President Nixon before winning the islands' first gubernatorial election...
...Melvin Maddocks...