Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gray Area. President Nixon moved to counter such criticism, sending one of his top advisers to brief the press. There had been, said the adviser in a background session, no significant (meaning not more than 10%) increase in battalion-size operations. Continuing high U.S. casualty totals in Viet Nam were the result, rather, of continued Communist offensives. Though admitting that figures on U.S. military operations in Viet Nam have always been of an "illusionary nature," he nonetheless cited some. In a typical week, when 35 to 40 enemy attacks are launched, some 150 to 200 Americans are likely...
...Justice Earl Warren had called for the Judicial Conference of the U.S. to formulate a code of ethics and require disclosure of all federal judges' financial affairs. But Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield was not satisfied. He said that he would use the Fortas and Douglas affairs to press for an identical code of conduct for all three branches of the Government...
...Poher conducted the finale of his campaign in his official residence as Senate president. It was in the Senate itself, in April, that plain-talking Alain Poher had mounted his challenge to De Gaulle and his referendum. Now, as a leading candidate to succeed De Gaulle, Poher summoned the press to announce his "plan of action...
...captain, Von Rosen talked about opening a flight school; on this premise, he approached Malmö Flygindustri, builders of the MFI-9B, and received permission to take up one of the trainers for familiarization flights. He searched quietly for pilots and demanded, with reason, that they be experienced. Studying press photographs of their planes in Africa last week, a Malmö Flygindustri executive pointed out with a shudder that the trainers were so overloaded with extra fuel tanks, rockets and radio compass that they were "technically" unable to leave the ground...
...ordinary press junket. The 15 newsmen paid their own way on a chartered Boeing 737, and each day for a week they visited a different big-city black ghetto, from Cleveland to Watts. Organized by Whitney Young, executive director of the Urban League, the tour included Washington Post Editorial Writer Ben Gilbert, Columnists William F. Buckley Jr. and Joseph Kraft, Newsweek Editor Osborne Elliott, John Herbers of the New York Times, and TIME Washington Correspondent Jess Cook. Cook's report...