Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...settle the future of Southeast Asia by means of a solemn accord with Communist China to neutralize the entire area. "Unless," he said, "we are prepared to fight a general war to eliminate the effects of Chinese power in all of Southeast Asia, we have no alternative but to seek a general accommodation." He recommended that "we indicate to the Chinese that we are prepared to remove American military power not only from Viet Nam but from all of Southeast Asia in return for a similar prohibition on her part...
...reappearance after five years as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs came only days after ailing Democratic Senator Patrick McNamara, 71, had announced that he would not seek re-election next fall. Might Williams have been gone from Michigan too long? Replied Soapy, now 55: "They'll recognize who I am when I walk down the street." To make sure, Williams last week stumped Michigan streets from Hamtramck to Ishpeming. They recognized...
...three days of conferences, he won a Soviet pledge to consider larger purchases in Britain and a promise that Premier Kosygin would soon pay him an official visit. Though Wilson could report no progress toward settling the Viet Nam war, the fact that he sent his disarmament minister to seek out Hanoi's top man in Moscow would help silence Labor's antiwar clique, which accuses him of not doing enough to halt the conflict...
...Sinyavsky (TIME, Feb. 18). According to a more ingenious version, he had promised the KGB (secret police) to publicly condemn Sinyavsky and Daniel when he reached London, then proceeded to do just the opposite. What seemed most likely, however, was that the Soviets had simply hoped that Tarsis would seek asylum of his own accord, thereby sparing them the problem of coping with a certified lunatic who, on occasion, makes altogether too much sense...
William DuBay of Los Angeles set about trying to form a union among the nation's 59,000 priests to seek better wages and working conditions...