Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRODUCERS. For his first film, Writer-Comedian Mel Brooks weaves his gags around two canny Broadway con men who set out to make a fortune by staging a flop. The result, despite its bad moments, is some of the funniest American cinema comedy in years...
...even to consider concessions. Actually, both U.S. and South Vietnamese officials were increasingly coming around to the view that Tet, in the long run, had proved to be a disaster to the Communists, costing them 42,000 men, by U.S. estimate, rallying many South Vietnamese to fresh efforts, and resulting in "no enemy flags in our cities," as Constituent Assemblyman Dr. Phan Quang Dan said last week during a U.S. tour. Similarly, U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Harold K. Johnson maintained that the U.S. "suffered a smashing, catastrophic psychological defeat" as a result of Tet?but only because...
...deputy a junior Foreign Service officer named William H. Sullivan, now the U.S. Ambassador to Laos and the chief go-between with the North Vietnamese in Vientiane. Impossible, snorted the State Department; Sullivan was outranked by whole battalions of bureaucrats. "I know," retorted Harriman. "I'm sending them home." Result: the cumbersome U.S. delegation was cut by two-thirds, and Harriman had Sullivan as his second-in-command...
Among the French, joy was unalloyed?except by smugness. "Was it ever in doubt?" murmured Premier Georges Pompidou during a visit to Teheran. "This is the result of the clairvoyant action of President de Gaulle with regard to the Viet Nam War," exulted long-time De Gaulle Critic Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Some French officials saw the parley as an opportunity for le grand Charles to establish himself as an outsize hyphen between East and West and a buffer between Hanoi and the U.S. Others spoke of Paris' long history as a site for crucial talks?perhaps overlooking such notable...
...result of the disqualification, Gov. Roger D. Branigin became the official winner a day after the race. Kennedy had led Branigin with 42 per cent of the Indiana vote, in the key primary...