Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days American and North Vietnamese diplomats will probably meet to take a cautious first step toward peace in South Vietnam. The scope of their discussions will be limited to arranging the end of American bombardment north of the 17th parallel. Once the raids are halted, both nations--and presumably their respective allies--will grapple with the more thorny problem of guaranteeing peace and stability in Indochina...
...mutations in the struggle had evolved. Growing weary of Mayor Loeb's intransigence, fashionably dressed white housewives urged him to give in, while council members called for the dues checkoff and for pledging Memphis' government to equal-opportunity hiring and promotion. And the scope of Negro demands was widening as swiftly as their mood could darken. Now agitators call not only for victory for the garbage men but better jobs and housing for all of Memphis' Negroes...
...formal declaration of war and thereby make it easier to rein in the supercharged economy with wage and price controls, silence critics and mobilize troops. But the State Department adheres to the objections it listed in 1965 to such a declaration-chiefly, that it would risk "enlarging the scope of the conflict" and lead to "expanded involvement" by Hanoi's Communist allies. As for the legality of fighting a major conflict without a formal declaration of war, the U.S. has done so in six of its eleven major wars...
Cropsey, a Dutch Reformed elder of Dutch-French parentage and a staunch romantic idealizer of nature, was born on Staten Island and trained as an architect in New York City. He was not an artist of wide-ranging scope, but he excelled at one uniquely American subject: the blazing radiance of Yankee countryside in autumn. Cropsey's magnum opus, Autumn on the Hudson River, now in the National Gallery, was completed in 1860, while the artist was living in London, and commemorated a view near West Point overlooking Storm King Mountain. The panorama includes hunters, grazing sheep, and sailboats...
...State Department, the Pentagon and U.S. headquarters in Saigon voiced profound pessimism. They were dismayed by the uncertain performance of the South Vietnamese government, dejected by the demoralization of a populace suddenly feeling even less secure than before, disappointed by the failure of U.S. intelligence in anticipating the scope of the Communist move at a time when such attacks clearly should have been anticipated. No one of course believed that half a million U.S. troops could be defeated by the enemy in Viet Nam; but there was considerable fear that they had been spread entirely too thin over too many...