Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the capital's Negro mayor, Walter Washington, the President dropped into a black ghetto, shook hands with the boys at the local pool parlor, and inspected the clearing of ruins caused by the Washington riots. Then he brought out a tough new anticrime program for the capital (see following story...
...Inaugural march. "Of course, I sent for my seats eight years ago." When he was about to return to the Executive Mansion for his first night in residence, he concluded: "They've given me the key to the White House, and I have to go home and see if it fits...
Whatever the outcome of the Pueblo investigation, it will be only a prelude to an even more intensive inquiry. Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird has ordered a top-level Pentagon study "to see that incidents of this kind do not happen again." However, the overriding significance of the Pueblo inquiry so far is not that the seizure occurred, but that a mentality existed in the U.S. Defense Department that allowed it to occur. That may take more than a Pentagon study to correct...
...Pacific. The southern half looks like Scotland: steep hills, lush fields dotted with sheep and shacks with wood smoke coming out of the chimneys. The valley is beautiful and silent. Two thousand people in maybe 150 square miles. Having few of the distractions of urban life, they see death clearly and have no urge to escape it. All they ask is a little sex, a little booze and a little humor in the meantime...
Presumption of Rationality. The Israelis see the Russian proposal as a trap, since any imposed settlement would put out of reach their goal of a peace treaty negotiated directly with the Arabs. In essence, the Israelis contend that their extended borders vastly lessen the danger of war: the Arabs are not in a position to fight, and Israel, with defense in depth, has no need to hit first as it did in 1967. Israel's argument is convincing, except for its presumption of rationality on all sides...