Word: mistakenness
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...Leader. In committing itself to the defense of South Viet Nam, the U.S. has also committed itself to the support of President Diem, who has long had a common border with the Communists, has never mistaken them for friends, and thinks they can be stopped...
...trade first, before any serious talk of diplomatic exchanges. Of the $2 billion in paper deals drummed up in the East, realistic Brazilians expect only a fraction. Says a senior U.S. diplomat in Rio: "If Khrushchev thinks he can make a sucker out of Quadros, he's badly mistaken." Adds Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos: "Brazil will not recognize the Soviet Union offhand, and will not recognize Red China for two or three years-certainly not until it is accepted at the U.N. We are committed to vote for debate on the Red China issue, but will not vote...
...agency, Prensa Latina, cheered the order. But the independent Jornal do Brasil saw it as a clear threat to a free press: "If the President thinks he is going to take the press by the throat, order investigations right and left, silence newspapers without resistance, he is very much mistaken...
...clear that the widow's chief concern was for the views of the Singhalese majority, whose votes had elected her, and who, through the years of British dominion, had been eclipsed by the better-educated Christians and the more industrious Tamils. And those who had mistaken the widow's campaigning tears for womanly weakness were having dry-eyed second thoughts...
Though the Senator proclaimed "great respect for the academic mind," he reminded the audience that academics were often mistaken. "If Harris's argument is valid, that a $10 billion deficit is good enough, why stop at $10 billion? Let's go to $25 billion, or $30 billion? Let's just print the money...