Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...initial worldwide reaction indicates that the plan may be backfiring. Many European nations have taken up the cry of Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, who begged the U.S. to "save the world from holocaust" by holding back on the nukes. China has taken a more disturbing step: a week after Wheeler's testimony, Chou En-lai promised to send some of China's new nuclear weapons to Hanoi if necessary...
Even with a narrow view to the present military pinch, Westmoreland's jingoism does not make much sense; this is the wrong time for the United States to close her options. Continuing the bombing is the reflex reaction to the enemy's offensive, but there still is no reason to believe that tactical bombing of the North has been, or is, militarily effective...
...most pleasantly surprised at the fair treatment you gave Sister Marian Peter, my brother and myself in the article "Priestly Rebels" [Feb. 2]. However, you made it sound like our decision was a reaction to "tough government measures" of a few days' duration. It was not. It was our response to a permanent situation of violence to human nature that can be seen in any set of statistics on Guatemala giving the infant-mortality rate, life expectancy, literacy, average income, distribution of the land, etc. You say we have broken the rule of noninterference in political affairs...
Saturday morning the participants were quickly broken up into small groups of seven or eight: a few students, a few trustees, and an administrator or two. Miss Batts recognized that much of the trustees' antagonism at the previous meeting was a visceral reaction to the notion of "student power," and she emphasized repeatedly to the four trustees around the table of the Hilles seminar room, "We don't want to run the College. That is impossible, ridiculous, and stupid. We want to be recognized as rational and responsible...
...that I was "antagonized by Pusey's move;" I was grieved by it, disappointed, and, as I have said above, I disagreed with it. But I certainly did not feel that he was exceeding the scope of his authority and that of the Corporation. I believe Professor Watson's reaction was the same...