Word: quemoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allies in NATO conceived this worrisome ghoul. They are understandably distressed at Nixon's suggestion that Quemoy and Matsu should be defended under any and all circumstances and at Kennedy's call for assistance to overthrow Premier Castro's government. Their idea has been that such matters are at the discretion of the President and of the State Department. Mere candidates in their view should ignore their conventions' proclamations that foreign policy is the most important issue in the campaign. Our allies would prefer, according to Mr. Reston in yesterday's New York Times, that Kennedy and Nixon refrain from...
...another debate is really to talk about Cuba, aand perhaps about Quemoy and Matsu as well, it is likely to give not only NATO but also the State Department a good deal of unnecessary anguish. Neither body wants to see men not in a position to make policy decision doing exactly that, and both resent seeing their best-laid plans destroyed with a few words to a television audience...
...fifth debate should not take place: neither Nixon or Kennedy are likely to make any new points at all, and if they make any more about Cuba or Quemoy-Matsu they will be forming antagonisms, not policies...
...Warsaw cease-fire talks came to nothing, and the Chinese Communists, who had left off their bombardment for a short period, resumed their shelling-but on a smaller scale. They pounded Quemoy on odd-numbered days, more as a nagging reminder of their presence than of their purpose. Over the months, their guns were heard less and less (Eisenhower's visit to Formosa last June occasioned the last big shelling). Though U.S. policy has at times been wobbly as well as ambiguous, Quemoy and Matsu, garrisoned with 100,000 Chinese Nationalist troops, are still free-a fair measure...
...refuse to make a flat yes-or-no statement on its intentions so that everybody knows clearly how things stand? Simply because, as one ranking Pentagon officer put it last week, there are "certain conditions" under which the U.S. would indeed be foolhardy to unlimber its guns for Quemoy's sake. So far, the Communists have hesitated to test U.S. intentions-a situation that Candidates Nixon and Kennedy themselves would have done better...