Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pham Van Dong released a letter to the U.S. peace movement that concluded: "May your fall offensive succeed splendidly." "It was too good to pass up," says White House Communications Director Herb Klein. Nixon summoned Vice President Spiro Agnew for a half-hour meeting, after which Agnew told the press that the M-day leaders "should openly repudiate the support of the totalitarian government which has on its hands the blood of 40,000 Americans." For the protest impresarios to ignore the Hanoi letter, said Agnew, "would bring their objectives into severe question." Dong and Agnew each made a tactical...
...about the contest that could undermine both his reputation and his present position as chief judge of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mrs. Haynsworth was philosophical: "Sad, but que sera sera." Haynsworth refused to discuss the substantive issues in the controversy. But he did point out that the press had failed to report testimony in his favor given to the Senate Judiciary Committee...
...Honda-riding young toughs who infest the capital, have become so nasty that few respectable women like to be seen walking with foreigners, particularly with Americans. "O.K., ten dollars" or "O.K., Salem" are favorite "cowboy" slurs, implying that the woman has sold herself for money or cigarettes. The Vietnamese press abounds with tearful stories of happily married Vietnamese women who left their husbands for the lure of the dollar and the company of Americans. By word of mouth, other, more bizarre tales make the rounds. Some uneducated Vietnamese men actually believe that U.S. troops are carriers of the "shrinking bird...
When the 100th crash occurred last week, however, there was hardly a murmur in the German press. The reason is that the crash rate in Germany is down to 10.8 per 100,000 flying hours...
Unlike Grey, who on three occasions was visited by British diplomats, Barrymaine had no contact with the outside world. At a press conference in Hong Kong, he admitted to reporters that after seven months in captivity, he had signed a "whole transcript, millions of bloody words of it, and a few confessions as well. Why not? I can assure you," he added with a smile, "it's not pleasant to be in a Chinese prison. Then again, I don't suppose it's meant...