Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blank page or not, Rogers next month will have to face the full range of troubles overseas. His overriding concern, of course, will be Viet Nam. His personal views on that are a mystery. "I have never said or written a word about Viet Nam," he observed. "I'm very happy about that." He will have to start speaking soon enough on this and other subjects. While Nixon never became very precise during the campaign on foreign policy issues, his general statements -and the obvious pressure points overseas-provide a relatively clear agenda...
...will be no breakthrough in the Paris talks in the next month, the new Administration must then attempt to find a settlement formula. If he cannot achieve the "honorable" terms he talked of during the campaign, Nixon's prospects for a successful Administration are practically nil. Beyond Viet Nam, Nixon is pledged to a "new diplomacy." Its aim is to concentrate heavily on the search for common ground with the Soviets and the rehabilitation of the Atlantic Alliance, to reach understanding
Roaring Off. Saigon was having problems of a different sort. After the Sen ate met in secret session to approve South Viet Nam's delegation, the acutely sensitive lower house protested that approval should have come from a joint session. The Supreme Court agreed, and not until week's end did the lower house, its pride salved, give its approval. As soon as that obstacle was cleared, the delegation motorcade roared off for Tan Son Nhut airport to board an Air Viet Nam 727 for the flight to Paris...
...newest Israeli countermeasure is an electronic barrier that stretches about 40 miles along the Jordan River Valley. The fence is a smaller version of the one that former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara once envisioned putting up in Viet Nam below the DMZ to prevent North Vietnamese infiltration. It consists of an outer line of 8-ft.-high barbed wire and an inner, 5-ft.-high line 10 yds. away. The space between is laced with mines. At irregular intervals along the fence are strung electronic sensing devices, which raise an alarm in adjacent guard posts when an infiltrator tries...
...Whitman Rostow. But when Rostow sought to reclaim his post as a professor of economic history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he left eight years ago to join John Kennedy, he was turned down. The most obvious explanation, that Rostow was blackballed for his hard line on Viet Nam, caused the New York Times's James Reston to write last week: "Is a man to be punished for beliefs sincerely held in public service if those beliefs happen to be unpopular in some university circles...