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...atomic bomb to defoliate is like using an atomic bomb to light a cigarette. We use weed killer." Lodge also clashed head on with the report of a committee of 13 Republican Congressmen, led by Michigan's Gerald Ford, which scored the Kennedy Administration for actively aiding the overthrow of the Diem regime. Lodge angrily denied that the Administration had been involved in any way. Ford advised that American officers now be given direct command of Vietnamese troops, instead of remaining merely as advisers. To that, Lodge retorted: "If we do that, we become a colonial power. I think...
...exile forces. If we mean business, we have a responsibility to give free Cubans full financial, moral, and political support-including the organization and equipping of Cuban exile forces. A free Cuba will need a well-organized, disciplined, democratically oriented force capable of assuming full governmental authority upon the overthrow of Castro...
...Investigating Committee. Brazilians could put it another way: compared with corruption, practically everything in Brazil has been insignificant. When the new government of President Humberto Castello Branco had completed its housecleaning with a tenth and final political "blacklist" of prominent Brazilians accused of Communism or corruption prior to the overthrow of President Joāo ("Jango") Goulart, corruption indeed seemed to have first rank...
...other "electric media" are oral-auditory, tactile, visceral, and involve the individual almost without volition. As a result McLuhan believes that the world is rapidly becoming a "global village," in which mankind communicates in a supermodern version of the way tribal societies were once related. In the coming overthrow of typographic and literate communications McLuhan expresses his grotesque hope that modern man can be put "back into the tribal or oral pattern with its seamless web of kinship and interdependence...
...name from Siam to Thailand, turned it westward, or so he thought, with such Occidental laws as ordering men to kiss their wives before leaving for work each morning, ruled with a generally competent, militantly anti-Communist hand until a 1957 economic crisis led the Thai army to overthrow him; of a heart attack; in Tokyo...