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More than Pollyanna. Rostow is distrusted by many for his hawkish attitudes and derided even within the Administration as an expounder of outspoken and endless optimism to a President who craves good news. Rostow does see through rather rosy lenses. He has said: "We're closer to an era of real global peace than any time since 1914." On Face the Nation, he said bluntly of the Communist campaign in South Viet Nam: "They have been tactically defeated." Having once referred to John Kennedy's success in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis as "the Gettysburg of global civil...
Such Democratic losses cannot be considered as an unequivocal repudiation of Administration Vietnam policy. The new 90th Congress will on the American voting public. The President's most outspoken critics -- Senators Wayne-Morse, Ernest Gruening, J. William Fulbright -- are not probably continue to support the present Vietnam policy. But it will be less likely to back negotiations with the Viet Cong, bombing pauses, or other dove policies. It will also be hostile to the Great Society domestic programs...
...figurehead proffered in the name of unity, Gengras is an outspoken progressive who wants to reform party and state. He accuses the G.O.P. of being "boring, dull, unimaginative," demands "vitality, energy, creativity and spunk." He wanted-and got-a liberal platform that promises everything from more schools, parks and roads to an increased minimum wage and tougher enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. He also nailed down a plank denouncing the John Birch Society. "A Republican Party that plays footsie with the Birch Society and the radical right," said Gengras, "cannot win and does not deserve to win." The vociferous minority...
Reinforcements Next Time. One of Kennedy's few outspoken critics was Blaar Coetzee, Deputy Minister of Bantu [Negro] Administration, who called the Senator a "little snip," and vowed that South Africa would not be intimidated by the U.S. or Great Britain. The pro-government Afrikaans press was also antagonistic, but the English-language papers were enthusiastic. "Kennedy's visit," gushed the opposition Rand Daily Mail, "was the best thing that has happened to South Africa for years."* Kennedy even got on well with the leaders of the South African Foundation, a business-sponsored promotional organization. After a private...
...after day, the cardinal heightened his challenge to the government, rallying hordes of the faithful with millennial Masses and pilgrimages, defying steel-helmeted troops armed with tear gas and burp guns. And day after dav, Gomulka's men raised the level of their blasts at Poland's outspoken prelate...