Word: rusk
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...Urban Development Secretary Robert C. Weaver, the first Negro to serve in the Cabinet, accepted appointment as president of Bernard M. Baruch College, a separate college of the City University of New York that is expected to be built in a Brooklyn renewal area. Secretary of State Dean Rusk may go back to a foundation job (he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation when J.F.K. named him Secretary of State). The future is uncertain for others, like Labor's Willard Wirtz and Attorney General Ramsey Clark...
Modest Yet Vigorous. Such measures would cost money-money that the Europeans, protected for nearly 20 years by the U.S. nuclear umbrella, have always been loath to spend. In his 16th and farewell appearance before the ministers, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk was as candid as Lemnitzer, telling the European partners that they must carry a greater share of the burden. Rusk and U.S. Defense Secretary Clark Clifford offered only an estimated $50 million in fresh U.S. aid. They also promised to return to Europe for maneuvers two infantry brigades and four tactical Air Force squadrons that had been...
...result would be a response to the Kremlin's new aggressiveness, said Rusk, that was "modest enough to show restraint, yet vigorous enough to demonstrate concern." Despite the new Soviet threat that, after all, touches Western Europeans most directly, the European response seemed more modest than vigorous. Italy agreed to a 7% budget increase, equal to an extra $140 million; West Germany promised to spend an additional $180 million and to bring its twelve divisions up to strength. The British managed a neat juggling act by announcing a hike in their contribution without any increase in defense spending, accomplished...
While the communiqué did not name names, allied diplomats did in background sessions with newsmen. Secretary Rusk declared to the ministers that...
...that the men will go free once he has received a note from Lyndon Johnson pledging that U.S. forces in Viet Nam will "do their best" to avoid violations of Cambodian territory. As a head of state, the Prince refuses to deal with anyone but L.B.J.; a recent Dean Rusk note containing the pledge was brushed aside as "insufficient...