Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Eugene McCarthy. No one else has done so much to change the course of history: the withdrawal of President Johnson from politics; Bobby Kennedy's plunge into the presidential race and ensuing events; a bombing halt in Viet Nam and peace talks; a President-elect named Richard M. Nixon...
...VIET NAM. The President-elect's first order of business will be to settle the war, if only for domestic reasons. In the Brookings report, Gordon argued: "The brutality and horror of the war-made vivid as in no previous war by the immediacy of television; the corrosive and divisive effects of the war on American society; and the budgetary drain of the war which has shortchanged urgent domestic claims-all dictate that ending the war must lead all other tasks on the President's agenda." Yet the report concedes that the end of the fighting "will...
...MIDDLE EAST. If Viet Nam is Nixon's most urgent problem, the Arab-Israeli face-down may well prove his most perilous concern. Once the Soviets decided to reinforce their Mediterranean fleet and serve as chief armorers and advisers to the Arabs, they raised the possibility of direct conflict between the superpowers in that volatile area. During the campaign Nixon urged that the U.S. help keep Israel militarily strong enough to ensure its survival-a recommendation that has, naturally, annoyed the Arabs. To reopen communications with both sides and seek out possible paths to reconciliation, Nixon has assigned Pennsylvania...
Raising the Flag. While Communist main forces lie low, the allies are pushing the war as hard as possible. Bombing of supply lines along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos has increased since the bombing halt over North Viet Nam. Hundreds of ground patrols stab out daily to find and fix Communist forces and bring them to battle. The allied pacification effort has been accelerated, with the aim of hoisting as many yellow-and-red South Vietnamese flags as possible before any cease-fire might freeze territorial claims. Saigon wants to add no fewer than 1,000 hamlets...
...sell copies of LIFE and Look when they carried features on the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution last fall. Some students confronted Johns at a convocation last spring, charged that he and many of the new teachers were promoting Marxist philosophy and inciting opposition to the Viet Nam war. One undergraduate group began a drive to impeach...