Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Vietnamese forces. Senator Eugene McCarthy speaks rather broadly of withdrawing to strongpoints, reducing military operations and trying to negotiate. Such veteran cold warriors as Henry Cabot Lodge and Dean Acheson, arguing that the only riskless settlement is victory on the battlefield, contend that the U.S. should not seek negotiations but do more...
...million in 1968; not until late in 1969 can it expect to turn smartly into the black. Meantime, domestic food prices have risen 3.8% since devaluation and will rise 5% to 15% after the first of the year. The powerful Trades Union Council still insists that it will seek a wage rise of an average $1.68 a week to take effect next June, which could endanger the advantages of devaluation by increasing the costs and prices of British exports...
Harvard has applied for a federal grant of $48,000 to finance a Phillips Brooks House program designed to seek out talented, disadvantaged youths in the Cambridge area...
Reischauer disclaims any personal interest in politics, but sitting prominently displayed on his desk is a personally-inscribed copy of Robert F. Kennedy's To Seek a Newer World. Reischauer admits to an intense admiration for the junior Senator from New York. As Attorney-General, Kennedy twice visited Reischauer in the Tokyo Embassy, and the Ambassador found him "intelligent, receptive and strongly-principled." If Robert Kennedy were to run for President, Reischauer says, he would be glad to serve in the campaign, although he has no interest in returning to government service...
Last June, Reischauer started work on Beyond Vietnam. Fearing above all that the frustrations of Vietnam might inspire a right wing isolationist reaction in this country, Reischauer has tried to strike a middle ground between isolation and escalation. Urging the government to seek negotiations rather than a military victory, he argued that further bombing of the North could do little beyond creating a second guerrilla theater. On the other hand, he maintains in his book, if we pull out immediately "in our eagerness to save American lives and stop the carnage, we might help produce such instability in Asia...