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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems absurd that mature men, especially those honored in the ranks of world diplomacy and charged with the awesome responsibility of ending a war that has become one of the most unpopular and ethically debatable in history, could spend months haggling over such minuscule points of procedure as the shape of the conference table and the number of doors leading to the main hall. It was estimated that the number of allied and enemy casualties during the week of Nov. 24 well exceeded the 2,000 mark. I hardly think that this squandering of human life can be condoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 20, 1968 | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...since she suffered false labor pains in October, Ethel checked into Georgetown University Hospital a few days before reaching term, was delivered by caesarean section in a 40-minute operation. It was her fifth caesarean, and both mother and 8-lb. 4-oz. daughter were reported in "excellent" shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 20, 1968 | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...aware that blacks have a separate, distinct, continually evolving history and culture. The problem before the black man today is not whether he has a separate place in the spectrum of humanity, that question was settled long before Leif Erikson was born. Rather it is the precise size, shape and depth of that place that concerns us now. We fully recognize that the validity, character, and depth of the black experience is utterly independent of white reactions, definitions or interpretations...

Author: By Clyde Lindsay, | Title: Wm. Styron Plays With Creating History | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the two issues left unresolved were probably the most important of all. One was a date for the first meeting involving all four sides (Secretary of State Dean Rusk predicted that it would be held some time this week). The other was the shape of the negotiating table. Hanoi wanted a square one, which would give the N.L.F. a side to itself. As the Communists see it, that arrangement would enhance the guerrillas' claim to independent status. The Allies apparently see it the same way. They want two rectangular tables, with the U.S. and South Viet Nam seated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Paris Conference: All Set to Talk -But No Place to Sit | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

Party Squabbles. How the coalition would shape up interested Venezuelans, for the moment, less than what had happened to a party that had almost everything going for it. Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez in the '50s had used the country's oil revenues, its biggest source of income, to turn Caracas into one of South America's most spectacular cities and to refurbish himself as well. Action Democrdtica ousted Perez Jimenez in 1958 and put the oil money into schools, highways, health programs and rural electrification. Venezuela still has a $900 million reserve and the bolivar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela: The Jolly Green Giant | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

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