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...inflamed rhetoric emanating from Mideast capitals heightened the air of unreality that had cloaked the impasse from the outset. "There is no going back," cried the United Arab Republic's Gamal Abdel Nasser. "War is inevitable," echoed the editor of his tame newspaper, Al Ahram. Israel, warned Foreign Minister Abba Eban, "is like a coiled spring," and could only consider Nasser's blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba as a direct threat to "the kind of national interest for which a nation stakes all that...
Price conceded from the outset that his two major points -- moral opposition to the war, and obligation to serve -- "are not easily reconcilable...
...first request is for an increase in salary from the present senior rate of $1200 for a fifth-time appointment: "That teaching fellows in the year beginning July 1, 1967 should not receive less than $1600 for a fifth-time teaching load." Perhaps we should say at the outset that such a request makes no sense unless we indicate what one-fifth of work amounts to. As we shall argue in more detail below in our request that a fifth-time teaching load should be equitably defined and administered throughout the University, we assume that a rating of one-fifth...
...guns swung round to zero in on the enemy hilltops. Marine jets began flying sortie after sortie with 1,000-lb. and 2,000-lb. bombs and napalm, eventually dropped more than 1,000 tons on the North Vietnamese. From the outset the Marine strategy was to take the hills at any cost, denying the enemy the killing high ground that would control the entire Khe Sanh area...
...that temptation." With loans of $43 million from the World Bank, $56 million from the Export-Import Bank and a $150 million line of credit from Japan, the Taiwan government set about building industry and improving the infrastructure of railroads, highways and communications on which it depends. At the outset, major industries were put under government control, and many of them remain there...