Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...communism had to be stopped from reaching South East Asia, gold mine for new international markets and cheap labor. Without hesitation, America stepped up its support of the French war in Indo-China and took over the load in 1954. Later in the 60's, Secretary of State Dean Rusk staunchly supported this dual policy of containment of China and "protection of American interests...
Several members insisted that such condemnation had already been the fate of former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, now a professor of international law at the University of Georgia, and former National Security Affairs Adviser Walt Rostow, whose professorship at M.I.T. was lost after his White House years. Said one council member: "Let's face it, it was a spineless, disgusting spectacle on the part of the intelligentsia. Rusk and Rostow were brutally punished for what they believed to be right, precisely by the people who have sonorously argued for diverse views and the freedom to express them...
...According to Morton Halperin at the Brookings Institution, the scholars who have consulted with the Government's China watchers have become nearly unanimous in depicting China as a relatively defensive, inward-looking, less-than-bellicose land. Says Halperin: "There was an enormous change from the time McNamara and Rusk were quoting Lin Piao as the new Mein Kampf to the time Nixon and Kissinger came...
...National Review. Below, in bold black letters: THE SECRET PAPERS THEY DIDN'T PUBLISH. Inside, spread over 14 pages, were memorandums "not published by the New York Times and the Washington Post, leaked to National Review." The memos were signed by, among others, former Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Admiral Arthur Radford, onetime chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...United Press International moved major stories on the Review's disclosures. The Washington Post front-paged them; Voice of America broadcast them round the world, and they received prominent play in the daily news summary prepared for President Nixon. The New York Times was more cautious, but quoted Rusk to the effect that, although he could not remember exactly, it was "entirely possible" that he had written a memo attributed to him. In Washington, officials started searching old files for the documents...