Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both of these arguments are at least debateable. If Senators Fulbright (D-Ark.) and Kennedy (D-N.Y.) are right, the U.S. could make substantial reductions in the scope and nature of its Asian commitments without seriously endangering the country's security. Similarly, it is not at all obvious that American security and well-being depend on the incessant production of more and more modern missiles...
Fiercely Exasperated. The diplomatic exploration grew in drama and widened in scope. Washington employed a still-anonymous foreign intermediary to sound out officials in Hanoi last month, meanwhile suspending bombing in the Hanoi-Haiphong region. Italy's Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani met with North Vietnamese envoys in Rome, sent Washington a lengthy report of Hanoi's views. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant jetted to New Delhi, Moscow, London and Paris, arriving back in Manhattan last week. Hanoi made an other gesture-plainly calculated, no matter how welcome-by releasing three captured U.S. flyers...
...campaign against Mr. Pusey; we don't belong there. It is not true that I was "antagonized by Pusey's move;" I was grieved by it, disappointed, and, as I have said above, I disagreed with it. But I certainly did not feel that he was exceeding the scope of his authority and that of the Corporation. I believe Professor Watson's reaction was the same...
...That alone was not too surprising under Castro's oppressive regime, but Granma followed it up a day later with a real stunner: the plotters were in league with the Russians. Thus, as he might savor a slow-burning, pungent Havana cigar, Castro revealed to the world the scope of Cuba's steadily worsening relations with Moscow...
...Internationalization" of Volunteers was debated before there was a Peace Corps. But the sensitivity of an overseas program depends above all upon the freedom delegated to overseas representatives and the sensitivity of these individuals and their contacts. While internationalizing the organization would complicate its administration and perhaps constrict its scope, sensitivity in host countries would not necessarily be increased...