Word: request
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Nixon's request, Thompson recently spent five weeks touring Viet Nam. He found some of the improvements since 1968 to be "astounding." Though the Tet offensive was a Communist psychological victory, he contends, it was militarily "suicidal." "The thing that surprised me more than anything else was the extent to which the government has regained control in the countryside," he said last week. "The V.C.'s population base has been eroded. The population is gradually losing confidence in the ability of the Viet Cong to win. It is coming in toward the government...
Almost the entire cut came in the form of a $5.6 billion amputation from the defense request. It first appeared that Nixon might have to settle for $1.1 billion less than he asked for in foreign aid. But late Saturday, even this appeared in doubt as the Senate rejected the $1.8 billion foreign aid money bill. The Senate action was an angry response to the House, which insisted upon granting $54.5 million to Nationalist China for jet fighters and $50 million in military aid to South Korea...
...fashionable party where all but he were in formal dress, took in the situation at a glance and said reassuringly: "Now I don't want anyone to feel embarrassed." He has it still, dapper in a brown dinner jacket, hand elegantly holding aloft the perpetual cigarette, answering a request for a definition of the perfect life with a single word: "Mine...
Secret Meeting. Since the Europeans had made the victory possible by agreeing not to buy South African gold in the first place, the U.S. could hardly refuse their request to ease the boycott. For its part, South Africa was ready to sue for peace. Its 1969 trade deficit reached an estimated $700 million by October, largely because of imports of machinery needed to modernize its economy. Unless the South African government could sell more gold at a good price, it would have to either 1) pursue risky policies of austerity and deflation during an election year, or 2) restrict imports...
...more serious problem is financing. President Nixon has given the Mekong project less support than Lyndon Johnson did. Washington has shortsightedly refused South Viet Nam's request that the U.S. contribute one-fourth of the money to build a $22 million bridge across the Mekong in the southern delta. U.S. officials contend that security problems and the cost of Vietnamizing the war make bridge-building unrealistic now. They deny any change in policy, saying that Nixon is simply waiting...