Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight and talk." Nixon, like Lyndon Johnson before him, probably feels that lack of such pressure could erode the allied negotiating position in Paris. But the war and domestic reaction to it have gone far beyond purely military considerations now, and the battle of Ap Bia raises the question of whether or not the U.S. should try to scale down the fighting by rescinding the maximum-pressure order. The Communists might follow suit and U.S. casualties might be reduced...
...have more than 1,000,000 troops in South Viet Nam?" The editor's reply was strictly party-line-that the U.S. is a huge industrial country that is able to mobilize great resources by draining its colonies. The interesting point was that the regime allowed such a question to be raised in public...
...peculiarly French subplot, the other main candidates-Socialist Gaston Defferre and Communist Jacques Duclos-are running for third place, primarily to establish their respective claims to speak for French workers. The real question is which of the front runners would inherit those votes in a runoff election, if all but Pompidou and Poher were eliminated (a runoff must be held if no candidate gets a majority in the first round...
Since the Soviets knew that Shub was scheduled to leave Moscow in July for a new assignment, his expulsion raised the question of why they had chosen at this late date to make an issue of his reporting. Foreign diplomats and correspondents in Moscow surmised that the Soviets wanted to make an example of him in the hopes of discouraging similar reporting by other newsmen. In retaliation, the U.S. at week's end ordered a Tass correspondent based in Washington to get out of the country within 48 hours...
...because they want to see girls 24 hours a day but because they want to be trusted to use their own judgment." But at San Diego State College, the men and women who share Zura Hall voted against any visiting in rooms. "It was not as much a question of morality as it was one of inconvenience," says John Yarborough, the college's director of housing. "If Willie likes to sleep late on Sundays, he doesn't like the idea of having to get up and dress to be presentable when his roommate's girl drops...