Word: planner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indochina had not turned the U.S. into a paper tiger. He had been searching for a means to show that the U.S. is now conducting what Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recently called an "abrasive" foreign policy. Even before the Cambodians seized the Mayaguez, one U.S. Government policy planner had told TIME, "There's quite a bit of agreement around here that it wouldn't be a bad thing if the other side goes a step or two too far in trying to kick us while we're down. It would give us a chance to kick them back?hard...
...appearance of Sam Pillsbury's article on rent control two days before a city-wide rent-hike strike is unfortunate. Pillsbury's "balanced" analysis is written from the perspective of the traditional urban planner ignoring the political realities which would scuttle even his most well-intentioned reforms and force tenants to resist rent increase--even though some landlords may be hurt and building maintenance may suffer...
...sense, the lucky ones were the Vietnamese who qualified for the U.S.'s endangered list. But with time running out, there was no guarantee that the U.S. would be able to remove all of the remaining 140,000 on the list by air. At week's end U.S. planners were reported ready to risk sending the first bargeload of evacuees 70 miles down the snaking Saigon River past the muzzles of enemy guns to Vung Tau. For obvious reasons, details of the plan were a closely kept secret. The sight of 5,000 Vietnamese being hauled away in a single...
Seawell has hand-picked replacements for Lindbergh, Trippe and former Treasury Secretary John Connally, who also will not stand for reelection. They are Financier Sol Linowitz; Marietta Tree, a city planner and former chief of the U.S. delegation to the U.N.; and Lowell Dillingham, scion of an old Hawaiian family. Only Dillingham appears cast in the elegant Trippe mold. Though a Boston Peabody, Mrs. Tree is known for her liberal views. Linowitz, a sagacious businessman, is expected to give Seawell tough-minded support...
...more important criticism of shuttle diplomacy is that it required the commitment of far too much of Kissinger's time and prestige. One of his problems is that he is unwilling to delegate authority, and he takes on too many jobs. Often he has acted as both the planner and executor of foreign policy, giving the impression of a troubleshooter rushing from one crisis to another...