Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McNamara blasted back in kind. In a press conference with Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus Vance, he termed the Hebert report "shockingly distorted," charged that its claim that his decision to curtail manned bombers was made despite J.C.S. protest "is without any foundation whatsoever." McNamara conceded that Air Force Chief of Staff John McConnell had argued for "full deployment and full development" of a new big bomber and that a unanimous J.C.S. request for $23 million to pursue research on such a bomber had been cut in half by McNamara himself. "I see no clear need for a new strategic bomber...
...with exhortation. "We want the region to adapt to its difficulties," he said, "to triumph over them. It is the men, and not only the things, that must learn to adapt themselves to our epoch." With that he swept on to nearby Dunkirk, to be greeted by a protest strike of 6,000 steel-and dockworkers. In Calais, the reception was a bit warmer: Mayor Jacques Vendroux is the brother of De Gaulle's wife Yvonne...
...have played a bit rough with the widow's late husband, Yale Law School Professor Fowler V. Harper, charging four years ago in his National Review that Harper had given "aid and comfort" to Communist causes by lending his name to a Viet Nam protest petition. Harper died last year before his $500,000 libel suit against Buckley was resolved, but his widow pressed on. Finally, Buckley put the matter to rest by settling for $13,750 in New York State Supreme Court, thus clearing the decks for the next big hassle. Nobel Prizewinner Linus Pauling, labeled a "fellow...
...ambassador observes quietly that he would never have accepted his present post if he were not convinced that the regime in Saigon is "sincere about its program of social revolution." His own taste for tulips is reflected in the sober belief that after years of volatile protest and vacillating regimes, his people "are now willing and able to participate" in what Vu Van Thai sees as South Viet Nam's new and significant "emergence of leadership." Says he: "I believe that we shall overcome...
Worried that only the Buddhists would profit from the forthcoming elections-and that Catholics would lose their influence in any new government-Catholic action groups readied their own protest marches, at week's end gathered in a Saigon park, 10,000 strong, for an orderly demonstration. The Catholics had earlier denounced Ky for failing to restore order in the I Corps, formed "assassin squads" in every parish to take care of any Communists who try to run for office in the election. In Saigon, in something of a switch, Catholics brandished warmly pro-American signs: "We are grateful...