Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want the world to know that as long as I am President of this country, we are going to defend ourselves. We will defend our soldiers against attackers. We will honor our treaties. We will keep our commitments. We will defend our nation against all those who seek to destroy not only the United States but every free country of this hemisphere...
...most of his rising lieutenants are pro-Peking. A Viet Nam united under Communist rule would, for the foreseeable future, remain a Peking satellite. It is absurd to suggest that after winning all of Viet Nam the Communists would then sit back and turn "mellow." Inevitably, they would seek domination of the whole area, and there is no sign that they would be resisted except in Thailand-and even here the Red pressure would be enormous...
...unlikely that Japan will seek to cooperate diplomatically with Peking in the immediate future. There is substantial opposition to this policy in influential circles. And Premier Sato himself is a strongly pro-Western conservative leader in the Liberal Democratic Party; he beat the socialist candidate in the last election by a majority of 228-137 in the Diet (Parliament). "Japan maintains diplomatic relations with Nationalist China," he said shortly after his victory, "and trade with Communist China is on the basis of a separation of economics from politics," "This pragmatic division aims at increasing profitable trade with Red China while...
...industry faces a new strike deadline: Sept. 1. Dave McDonald, who intends to contest Abel's election, immediately announced that the union considered the 11½? figure only a "floor," will seek to get much more in the bargaining to come. In fact, McDonald had to ride out cries of a "tin cup" agreement in a stormy, three-hour union meeting before he got final approval for the settlement. After June 1, Abel will be the chief negotiator, and how hard he pushes for more will determine what happens in September...
...meeting called by the Greater Boston Faculty Committee on Vietnam, they approved the draft of a rebuttal to appear as an advertisement in the New York Times May 9. The group also discussed plans to publish a continuing series of statements about the Vietnam crisis, and seek national support to finance their efforts...