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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this a genuine lull, or had the Communists been hurt so badly by Abrams' successful tactics that they were merely pulling back to regroup, as they have done so often in the past? Many in the Johnson Administration seemed willing to interpret the lull as a deliberate signal from Hanoi that the North Vietnamese wanted to move on to a new phase in the Paris peace negotiations. A minority, centered in the Pentagon but also including Rostow and Rusk, held out in the absence of firm and far-reaching North Vietnamese concessions. Said one U.S. diplomat: "I have always...
Same Pendulum. For the past year, three institutions have been principally responsible for formulating Viet Nam policy: the Tuesday Lunch Group that Abrams sat in on last week; the Thursday Group, including C.I.A. Boss Helms, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Wheeler, Nitze, and several others who meet regularly in Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach's office; and the Eleven O'Clock Group, mostly lower-level officials assigned to draft the policymakers' decisions. Among all these officials, few supported the bombing of the North up to the end. The swing man, inclined first one way, then...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats are in danger of dying out. The number of paid memberships has decreased from 500 to 250 over the past year, and of those about four are active, according to treasurer Lance R. Rodgers '71. Only 20 members showed up for a club-sponsored election night party held Tuesday "to celebrate a Democratic defeat...
...place Harold Hughes struggled past David Stanley by a bare four per cent after running neck and neck most of the evening hours. Hughes, who nominated McCarthy at the Democratic Convention, was not expected to win in hawkish, conservative Iowa...
...past years the Hasty Pudding has made large amounts of money from the bar during its annual theatricals. The club originally planned to contribute profits from this year's shows to charity...