Word: quemoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pronouncements on the need for new diplomatic vigor in Western Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America were based on the assumption of a U.S. lag and his ability to recreate the atmosphere of F.D.R.'s Good Neighbor policy. But the specifics of foreign policy-on Cuba as on Quemoy-had raised many hackles and some doubts...
...Hotel Plaza-a smorgasbord benefit to raise funds for a new youth cultural center in Jerusalem. On his 74th birthday Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek chose to underscore one of the hottest issues in the U.S. election by journeying to the Nationalist-held island of Quemoy within easy range of the Red Chinese coast artillery. Bedded in Baltimore in a cast, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, 61, president of Johns Hopkins University, got word from doctors that his slipped disc will keep him out of action for another three months. With "great reluctance," brother Dwight accepted his resignation from advisory...
Invigorated by the sweet smell of success, Jack Kennedy swept his campaign into a dizzying, whirlwind windup. For the first time, both candidates were now using the state of the economy as their basic issue, giving everyone some rest from Quemoy, Matsu and Cuba. Kennedy struck home with economic issues in hard-pressed areas of Pennsylvania and Illinois, and conjured up the spectre of an economy "slipping into its third recession in six years" in areas that were not hard-pressed but were beginning to wonder if they might be. By his own oomph-no less than by virtue...
...York Times, which has not endorsed a Democrat since 1944, when it recommended a fourth term for Franklin Roosevelt after opposing him for Terms II and III, came out for Kennedy in a limp and stodgy statement: "In the field of foreign policy . . . despite their sharp dispute over Quemoy and Matsu, the two candidates are in substantial agreement . . . But Senator Kennedy's approach . . . except for his momentary blunder suggesting intervention in Cuba . . . seems to us to be more reasoned, less emotional, more flexible, less doctrinaire, more imaginative, less negative." On domestic policy a Democratic President will have greater influence...
...lacks that inner conviction and self-confidence which are the marks of the natural leader." Last week, on the question of how the U.S. should treat Castro's Cuba, Lippmann dolefully disagreed with Kennedy's solution, nonetheless declared Nixon's both "false and insincere." On Quemoy-Matsu. Nixon has simply been "slanderous" toward Kennedy...