Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varied experience, says Clark, "nothing prepared me for covering Vietnamese politics, which are unfathomable to the Vietnamese themselves." Viet Nam and its troubles, he says, are an obsessive subject with everyone in the bureau. For occasional lighthearted relief, Clark reports that he and his colleagues have spent their spare time working out some novel methods for ending the war. It is doubtful that either statesmen or generals will agree on the peace-winning potential of the most imaginative of the bureau's ideas: "Drop 50,000 Honda motor scooters by parachute on Hanoi. In the hands of Vietnamese riders...
...Question. Nixon has taken a position on the anti-ballistic missile, but one that does not really settle the issue (see following story). The decision typifies his approach so far-somewhere between action and caution. As for Viet Nam, Nixon has not -so far as the public can see, anyway-moved from the Johnson Administration's policy. Casualties still run as high as 300 or 400 a week. Since peace talks began in Paris last May, more than 10,000 young Americans have been killed...
...President's meeting in California last week with Ellsworth Bunker, the ambassador to Saigon, and General Andrew Goodpaster, deputy chief of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, may be only one of a series of crucial meetings aimed at new moves toward peace (see THE WORLD). "This is like any other delicate operation," says a top Nixon aide. "The public doesn't have to know what the strategy is. The last Administration made the terrible mistake of announcing what it was going to do. Why should we tell the other side what our negotiating position...
...striking fact is that in a time of intolerance and acrimony, so many have been silent since Inauguration Day. Antiwar posters have not disappeared from the campuses. But the young and the militant have kept campus rebellions going more to support their own causes than to protest Viet Nam. Senate doves have not lost their voices, but they have been reticent. The presidential critic has for the moment become rather rare. That situation is likely to change over the ABM issue. But for the present, if Nixon has excited only a few, he has angered perhaps even fewer. Arthur Schlesinger...
...tenth U.S. Secretary of Defense, Melvin Laird, seemed to have unpopular lines to speak onstage all week. Returning from a four-day trip to Viet Nam, he rendered the disappointing (if far from final) verdict that no reduction in the number of U.S. troops there seems foreseeable now. Testifying before two Senate committees, he vigorously defended the Administration's proposed anti-ballistic missile system, which has widespread opposition, by reporting that the Soviet Union has made considerable advances in offensive weaponry. Then he disclosed that the new defense budget could be cut by no more than...