Word: overtness
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...describe Floyd McKissick, national director of CORE, as "winner in a covert internal coup that ousted longtime CORE Leader James Farmer" [June 10]. There was no coup, covert or overt, internal or external. There was no "ousting." My resignation was of my own volition. I made that decision in order to launch a literacy campaign under auspices of the Center for Community Action Education to supplement the fight waged by the civil rights movement, lest, when equal opportunity is won, we find that many are unable to enjoy their new freedom. At my request CORE set up a committee...
...UNDECLARED WAR (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A news special citing 79 instances of "overt hostilities"-meaning shots, soldiers and casualties-since World War II, with special emphasis on guerrilla skirmishes in Colombia, Guatemala and Peru, and the Panama Canal Zone riots...
...took place when the Eisenhower Administration enunciated the doctrine of massive retaliation. This strategy assumed that any war would quickly become a major nuclear exchange of short duration, and thus assigned big money to nuclear weaponry to the detriment of conventional forces. The threat of nuclear death would prevent overt Communist aggression, went the theory, and the rest would not matter. But it has been the rest-in Viet Nam and elsewhere-that has caused much of the trouble in the past decade. Nuclear weapons not only failed to deter mischief, but could not, in sanity, be used to quash...
China-watching has become the indispensable underpinning for the evolution of U.S. policy. To get the material they need to form realistic analyses, both Government and academic experts tap numerous and diverse sources, covert and overt. The U.S. maintains its largest consulate in Hong Kong, where a corps of translators collects and analyzes an endless stream of Chinese periodicals, some smuggled out from remote provinces. The compulsive outpourings of Radio Peking and other internal radio stations are monitored by a string of sophisticated snooping devices on China's perimeter. Drone planes, high-flying U-2s and satellite cameras record...
That seemed to suggest an overt opposition to Mao-think, but if so, the Maoists suggested that they were ready for anything. The Central Committee journal Hung Chi last week warned that "workers, peasants and soldiers who are armed with Mao Tse-tung's thinking have a most acute sense for distinguishing flowers from poisonous weeds...