Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighting is a cause worth winning." Rockefeller stands with the President, declaring that Johnson "must back the American commitment to freedom-and we must back him in this commitment." Percy, the least bellicose of the lot, is somewhat ambivalent: he proposes neither an unconditional bombing halt nor an outright pull-out but emphasizes the need to "accelerate the pursuit of peace...
Pearson also reshuffled the Cabinet of his Liberal government for the first time since last year's general elections. The effect was to bring into the foreground bright new men whose influence will be to pull French-speaking Quebec more closely into the English-dominated confederation. To make room, out went Minister of Justice Lucien Cardin, 48, and Privy Councilor Guy Favreau, 49, who are both ailing and wanted to quit. Into the largely ceremonial privy-council post, where he can continue his study of the Canadian economy, moved former Finance Minister Walter...
Under a new, precedent-breaking foreign-investment code, Western firms will be allowed to provide up to 50% of a Yugoslavian company's capital. Foreign partners will be guaranteed not only their share of profits but also the right to pull out when they see fit. Almost apologetically, Yugoslavian Federal Assembly President Edvard Kardelj assures his Communist colleagues that the investment code was the only alternative to "becoming an economic and political appendage of the more developed countries...
...said people wanted to know what I think about the war. I think the U.S. had no business getting involved in Viet Nam in the first place, when the French pulled out. But we are here now in a position of commitment so great that we could not simply pull out. As for the consensus, I would say that most of the guys here think it's a hot, dirty, stinking war and cannot wait to get home. But they feel that they have a job to do and must do it as well as they can. Does that...
...McDonnell pull Douglas out of its spin? Nobody who knows Mr. Mac thinks he would have put so much money into a company so loaded with debt unless he felt confident of the outcome. And as if to bolster that confidence, he plans to install a new chief executive at Douglas: the handsome heir apparent from McDonnell, President (since 1962) David S. Lewis...