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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call to the President for that solution?although it evidently gained new respectability and popularity (see story on page 20). What M-day did raise was an unmistakable sign to Richard Nixon that he must do more to end the war and do it faster. Unless the pace of progress quickens, he will have great difficulty maintaining domestic support for the two or three years that he believes he needs to work the U.S. out of Viet Nam with honor and in a way that would safeguard U.S. interests and influence in the world...
...Paris, Henry Cabot Lodge, chief of the American negotiating delegation, worked quietly in his quarters at the U.S. embassy, preparing for yet another bargaining session that would produce no bargaining, no progress. In Boston, the ambassador's son, Harvard Business School Professor George Cabot Lodge, conducted a Moratorium Day teach-in for 150 students...
...guess, the straw-men fell fast that morning. Very simply, neither of the two criteria explain the problem. Throughout the literature of the Center, there are reports stressing the progress towards a true market economy that a given nation is making. Through some process, whether by true beliefs or by economic or personal interest, they all believe that a market economy is the best way for a country to "develop...
...might as well destroy two other myths at the same time. The first is about Pakistan. Just after the Center issued its Tenth Annual Report in 1968, in which they praised the "progress of the economic policy and performance" of the Pakistani government, that government was overthrown after days of bloody rioting in major cities. The new rulers were from the same class, but plainly some one was unhappy...
...Shadow of a Doubt brings the best of these themes into a very tightly constructed drama, Returning to the original material of melodrama, it uses a family setting for a complex and subtle interplay of moral perceptions. At the same time the plot is constructed on personal progress; it follows the growth of moral and romantic awareness of an adolescent girl. But though it ends in a clear confrontation between good and evil its use of real locations and realistic performances maintains moral complexity and resonance through the film...