Word: notional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Herman Kahn, who popularized the notion of scenarios for plotting world events, has written a large number of scripts for ending the war. One, which he clearly does not think very likely or desirable, contains a grim extension of Rockefeller's pullback proposal. It is nothing short of further partition of Viet Nam, in which Hanoi would be given South Viet Nam's northernmost province of Quang Tri and part of Thua Thien south of it. Another involves the creation of a third, more or less independent buffer state between North and South Viet Nam, carved...
...members of the present government of President Nguyen Van Thieu. Thieu, in turn, so far refuses to countenance any coalition with the Front or the Viet Cong, and has jailed prominent South Vietnamese, including former Presidential Candidate Truong Dinh Dzu two weeks ago, for even daring to suggest the notion...
...critics of the war have argued with increasing volume that the lull constituted Hanoi's concession toward peace. As a reciprocal step toward deescalation, they insist, the U.S. should halt all bombing of the North. Last week, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and President Johnson flatly rejected the notion that North Viet Nam had taken any such "political decision" toward a scaledown...
...done nothing else, Abe Fortas has surely shattered the standard notion that a Supreme Court Justice leads a sequestered, monastic life that takes him from bench to book-lined study and back again. After admitting that he had continued to counsel Lyndon Johnson while serving on the court, Fortas cited several precedents to the Senate committee considering his nomination as Chief Justice. Among others, Presidents Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt all had valued advisers on the court, Fortas recalled...
...even here, argues Scarisbrick, Henry "seriously mishandled" his divorce case, leaving his succession in doubt for a dangerous decade. And as for the notion of Henry the Hot-Blooded-inspired by his succession of six wives-Scarisbrick tempers it with cool practicality. "Henry was probably neither a remarkably accomplished nor endearing lover," he writes, but simply a man driven by the "need to beget progeny in sufficient quantity to prove himself and assure his dynasty...