Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprise move yesterday, Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) read a statement by five Harvard professors condemning further escalation of the Vietnam war before Secretary of State Dean Rusk and a national television audience...
Fulbright's action, a complete surprise to the five professors, came at the close of two days of public hearings on the war. Rusk attended the hearings to defend the administration's policy in Vietnam...
...Chinese call the U.S. a "paper tiger" they mean "not that the enemy is weak but that in the long run he can be overcome." A Communist victory in Vietnam, the Chinese believe, will illustrate this principle at work, inspiring others to launch their own struggles. When Dean Rusk reads Chinese documents expressing these views he is confirmed in his resolve never to give up the fight in Vietnam. Ironically, he seems to believe in the infallibility of Communist wisdom on this point. Nevertheless, both the Chinese and the American analyses are wrong...
...have been more subtle. A small Massachusetts newspaper reported that a local man, "a specialist in nuclear research," had been sent to a Marine base "near the demilitarized zone." Time said that a party of nuclear-weapons experts from Columbia had been sent to Vietnam, but added that Dean Rusk denied any connection between this group and nukes at Khesanh...
...have asked the Soviet Union to put pressure on the Hanoi government for the release of Ambassador Bunker, as well as Mrs. Charles Percy. Until such time as their release is effected, I can only reiterate the stand taken by Mr. Rusk: 'My strong advice to Hanoi is to cool it. There have been enough of these incidents...