Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hatfield said before his speech that his closer contact with the Vietnam situation since becoming Senator in January had merely strengthened his opposition. He said his briefings with Rusk had been like listening to a record...
...fell to Secretary of State Dean Rusk to deliver the Administration's official reply to Bobby. What Kennedy proposed, said Rusk, was "substantially similar" to Administration actions explored "without result" many times in the past. "We have had bombing pauses of five days in 1965, 37 days in December-January 1965-66, and six days just two weeks ago," he said. "And we encountered only hostile actions in response...
...Prince Norodom Sihanouk echoed that demand, the Pentagon bluntly replied that the North was "demanding a permanent free pass for its continued aggression" against the South. Contradicting the Boss. Secretary McNamara has never called for an end to the bombings. What prompted the talk of his differences with Rusk was his patent ambivalence about the value of the raids during closed hearings of the Senate Armed Services and Appropriations Committees in January. A heavily censored transcript of his testimony released last week indicated that McNamara did indeed have reservations. "Undoubtedly, the bombings do limit the capability of the North Vietnamese...
...Rusk received some assistance in his own confrontation from South Vietnamese Foreign Minister Tran Van Do, who wrote a 1,300-word letter to Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright, warning that the Arkansan's "unjust" criticism of the U.S. war effort was grist for Hanoi's propaganda mills and inviting him to Saigon-which he has yet to visit. Fulbright, however, seemed fully occupied in Washington with the latest round in the hearings on Viet Nam before his Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The sessions followed a familiar pattern. Retired General James Gavin, who last year urged...
...Latin America has buzzed with talk and tentative plans for a hemispheric summit conference that would bring together President Johnson and the leaders of 20 Latin American countries-all except Castro's Cuba. Last week in Buenos Aires' flag-bedecked Teatro San Martin, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the foreign ministers of the 20 countries involved reached final, formal agreement on the time, place and agenda. The meeting will be held April 12-14 at the sunny Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este. The agenda will include discussions on joint inter-American programs for electric power...