Word: plea
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State Secretary Rusk reinforced Kennedy's plea. Said Rusk at a televised press conference: "I am very much concerned about the tendency in the Congress to legislate foreign policy as it might apply to specific situations or specific countries. The legislative cycle moves a year at a time; the world moves very fast. It is not possible for the Congress to anticipate in advance what the circumstances are going to be in any given situation...
...except that it holds less prospect for disaster than the present policy. Until the last few weeks, support for the Diem government remained dangerously open-ended. United States personnel in South Vietnam could always plead for just a little more time to corral the Vietcong. The more often this plea was granted, American involvement increased, and the more difficult it became for Washington not to grant the plea the next time. The danger lay in the possibility of having finally to withdraw in great ignominy, to hang on embarrassingly and expensively, or to expand the fighting into an unwanted major...
Home can be equally pointed on domestic issues, of which his foes say he knows nothing. Every step to make Britain more competitive and prosperous, said Home not long ago, has "an instant effect on our ability to guide events. Once more I make a plea for wealth -which is one of the foundations of influence...
Brilliant Maneuvers. Harold Wilson's triumph went deep into the complex machinery of the Labor Party, and it was complete. Only a month earlier, Britain's Big Six unions indignantly rejected Wilson's plea for the "wage restraint," that he considers essential to successful economic expansion. But on the conference floor last week, bull-headed Ted Hill, the Boilermakers' union leader who headed the resistance, meekly announced that, in view of Wilson's plans to boost national production, the unions had decided to cooperate after...
...neither legally nor morally reprehensible. We therefore requested the Council to clarify their contention that we did not deserve recognition on the ground that we were a discriminatory group. We want ed to know on what ground we were deemed to discriminate but should not. The Council rejected our plea for enlightenment...