Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...qualification, "after peace is assured." In other words, the U.S. is perfectly willing to get out of South Viet Nam, but only when and if the country is made really secure-which would obviously take a long time. As a Washington observer explains: "It is not U.S. policy to seek or maintain bases in Southeast Asia merely for the purpose of having such bases. The bases will remain in the area only so long as they are essential for the protection of countries." Hanoi, of course, does not concede that Viet Cong infiltration or subversion is a form of aggression...
Pity the diplomat from a small Latin American nation in London, Paris, Bonn or Cairo. He has no real need to arrange treaties, snoop for political intelligence, or seek out the details of clandestine missile sites. There is really only the social life and perhaps Bingo once a week to take one's mind off the worst threat of all-job insecurity. With every attempted coup d'état back home comes a whole new wave of replacements. In Santo Domingo last week, Provisional President Héctor García-Godoy gave his nation's foreign...
...into law, Johnson declared that this provision "would dilute and diminish the authority and power of the Presidency" and that he had not been elected "to preside over its erosion." The President said he had directed the Secretary of the Army to ignore the provision and that he would seek its repeal...
...selection committees have a tough job which I am sure we do not always do well. We must seek to weigh a great many imponderable factors. But these factors relate strictly to the individuals, and not to their colleges. The wonderful thing is that there is so much outstanding talent and character in so many different places...
...Word rather than the Word itself. They are equally wary of ecumenism, on the ground that churches should be united by a fellowship of faith rather than by organizational merger. Even more abhorrent are the radical ideas of the "death of God" thinkers which, they say, seek to make God acceptable to man rather than try to bring man back to God. "We are not ready to be His pallbearers yet," snaps Dr. Merrill Chapin Tenney, dean of the graduate school of Illinois' Wheaton College...