Word: quids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another conglomerate, the P.D.M. is a center party that has tried without notable success to be a tertium quid between Gaullism and Communism. The P.D.M. inherited the mantle of the Fourth Republic's Christian Democratic Mouvement Républicain Populaire. Economically progressive, Europe-minded and pro-U.S., the P.D.M. is still far from the balance-of-power position between left and right that the M.R.P. enjoyed, but may pick up more seats...
...Communists will demand a total cessation of U.S. air strikes and all other acts of war against the North (presumably including naval bombardments and artillery shells lobbed across the Demilitarized Zone) before they will consent to talk about "other matters." In its turn, the U.S. will insist on a quid pro quo under the San Antonio formula that Johnson enunciated last September. As Defense Secretary Clark Clifford defined it, the prescription calls for the U.S. to stop the bombing if North Viet Nam indicates that it will continue "to transport the normal amount of goods, munitions and men to South...
...economic or social sphere. A nationwide attack on poverty or discrimination may be doomed to failure, but an assault on a specific or local ill may very well prove to be successful. A few of the militants, points out Harvard Government Professor Martin Kilson, are discovering the meaning of quid pro quo-and gaining meaningful concessions from the white community with promises to work for peace in the ghetto...
...even with all this help, the Library Corporation has bungled the job. The reason is that it has tried to keep the issue apolitical. No single representative at the State House is pushing the bill. Like other legislators, the men on Beacon Hill play the quid-pro-quo game. The Kennedy Library has little to offer anyone, so it gets no favors in return...
...since outlived whatever usefulness they might have had in bolstering the morale of the Saigon regime. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara has testified of their dubious military value. The Administration should have halted the air attacks long ago; in the wake of Hanoi's apparently firm offer of a quid pro quo, it is unconscionable that they continue...