Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nguyen Thi Binh, opened for presentation a repackaged set of Communist proposals. In many respects it was the all-too-familiar farrago of impossible demands, but it contained sufficient changes in content and nuance to persuade the U.S. negotiating team that the Communists might finally be ready to talk serious business...
...improvement in the capability of the South Vietnamese to defend themselves. The first and third of these are subjective matters; at any time the Administration could announce that these two requirements, at least, have been met. A reduction of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, like the hint of serious bargaining in Paris, does not necessarily mean an early, comprehensive settlement. But it could be a small step toward that goal. It may be that the war will slowly end, as it slowly grew, notch by agonizing notch...
...Fortas contretemps may quite possibly be the most serious in the Supreme Court's 180 years. No Supreme Court Justice has ever resigned under pressure. Only one-Samuel Chase in 1804-has been impeached, but on such blatantly political grounds that he was acquitted. Three years ago, it was disclosed that Justice William O. Douglas was receiving $12,000 a year in fees from a foundation linked to Las Vegas gambling interests. However, no one connected with the foundation was in immediate need of highly placed connections, as Wolfson and his associates were...
...immediate problem. Though their numbers are not great, they have managed to bring about an incredible amount of disturbance. Yet it is not they, so much as the response they have won from other young people who should refuse to follow their lead, which constitutes the most serious problem...
...would like to assure the Congress and the public from my own experience that we within the universities are not unaware of the serious implications of the disturbances with which we are now confronted--how venomous and threatening they are. I would like the Committee to believe that we are seeking to understand them and to find ways to contain those relatively few individuals who are most immediately responsible. Toward this end we must enlist the cooperation of the many other young who truly want to build a better society. It is for this reason that I urge...