Word: presidentitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American attitudes toward the South Vietnamese government have had a profound influence on the type of settlement the country is willing to accept to end the war. While 55% of the leaders and 58% of the public voiced support of the President in maintaining that South Viet Nam's...
The potential conflict is over how sharply the goals of the peace drive should be focused and how broad a following it should seek. The Viet Nam Moratorium Committee, which organized the Oct. 15 demonstrations, is led mainly by politically oriented moderates and liberals. Created quickly on the strength of...
The crisis is rooted in Lebanon's volatile ethnic makeup. Roughly half of its 2,700,000 citizens are Christian, half Moslem. The Lebanese, jealous of their position as the eastern Mediterranean's pacemakers in commerce and communications, have kept the ethnic conglomerate intact for 26 years by...
If Helou's government is to remain in power, it will probably have to back down and give even freer rein to the guerrillas. The President indicated as much with a message to Arafat, carefully promising that "Lebanon is ready to continue to support the Palestinian struggle within the...
Issue of Asylum. Extradition and punishment of hijackers could discourage the practice, but as the LOT incident showed, piracy in the air is encouraged by politicking on the ground. Poland demanded that the two East Germans be sent to Warsaw for prosecution. But French occupation officials in West Berlin, on...