Word: mistakenness
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...with new troop withdrawals-in an address to the nation this month. It would be logical for him to time the announcement for maximum effect on the congressional elections. But White House aides insist that if Hanoi expects changes in basic Administration policy for domestic reasons, it is mistaken. Whatever the Hanoi regime expects, a spokesman for its delegation in Paris described reports of a new American proposal as "only for political purposes." Moreover, Saigon sees things the same...
Spengler, meanwhile, was beginning to experience the disappointment the rest of his team had had to live with throughout the race. He had not known who was behind him. With a mile-and-a-half to go, Spengler had turned around quickly and had mistaken the four Penn shirts for two Penn and two Harvard shirts...
...certainly, the world is far from ideal, parents can be mistaken and children can be correct. But as long as history continues to teach us that we live in a real world, that innumerable Utopian schemes have failed, that maintenance of a balance of power is critical to improving the chances for peace, that wars have been a major part of our history since recorded times, and that possibly, just possibly, the human being is not as noble and as selfless as our hand-wringing liberals have apparently assumed, I will tend to place more faith in those who have...
...Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P.), whose specialty is the hijacking of airplanes. "Without our consent, the other Arabs can do nothing, and we will never agree to a peaceful settlement. If the Arab countries now think they can gang up and make peace over our heads, they are mistaken. All we have to do is assert our power in one country and the rest will lose their resolve and start backsliding...
...Career Ambassador, Allen served as envoy to Yugoslavia, India, Nepal, Iran and Greece, before becoming director of the U.S. Information Agency (1957-60). After retiring, he was appointed president of the Tobacco Institute, a position he held until being recalled to head the Foreign Service Institute in 1966. Often mistaken for George E. Allen, jolly friend and collector of Presidents (Roosevelt, Eisenhower), Ambassador Allen was once erroneously ushered into Eisenhower's White House study. Said...