Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next year. Privately, Nixon told a group of Republican Congressmen last week that nearly all U.S. troops will probably be out of combat before the November 1970 elections. Whether or not he can bring about that result, the President made one unassailable observation on television about his "plan for peace." "If it does succeed, what the critics say now won't matter," he said. "If it does not succeed, anything I say then won't matter." With that, Americans of practically every viewpoint could agree...
Lonely Day. If the flight goes according to plan, the all-Navy crew will ride the nautically named Yankee Clipper into moon orbit after 83 hours in space. Then Skipper Charles ("Pete") Conrad, 39, and Space Rookie Alan Bean, 37, will board the module Intrepid for their trip to the moon's surface. While his fellow astronauts explore the Sea of Storms 69 miles below, Gemini Veteran Richard F. Gordon Jr., 40, will spend a lonely day and a half in orbit...
Southern Strategy. The court's order brushed aside a Justice Department request to allow school boards time to draw up their own plans. The request, prepared by Jerris Leonard, chief of the Civil Rights Division, made it plain that the Administration does not plan to abandon its passive role in the desegregation fight, a role that, as part of the President's "Southern strategy," is calculated to build the Republican Party in Dixie. There was nothing in Leonard's proposal to suggest a firm determination to enforce the law. On the contrary, it could be construed...
...Minister who heads the "open arms" program for defectors, but a genuine defector managed to get the grenade away from the two before it could explode. Captured enemy documents indicate that the Communists at present are in the process of preparing to launch the final phase of their war plan. That phase is not so much an "offensive"-the weakened Communist forces no longer use the word-as a series of "high points" or sporadic attacks designed to make the American people so weary of the war that they will demand an immediate pullout...
Once the U.S. and Soviets arrive at a joint proposal, they will present it to France and Britain. But even if the Big Four can finally reach accord on a peace plan, there is no guarantee that either the Arabs or the Israelis will accept...