Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...similar concerns. Notes Stanford Historian Claude Buss: "Australians, New Zealanders, Koreans, Filipinos and Thais with their forces in Viet Nam are not going to sit aside while we make peace. They will have positive ideas, and they will insist on more security guarantees than we would. They are going to be a lot stickier at a peace conference than...
Should we pull our forces in close to specific populated enclaves in order to improve theoretically the security of those areas, we would make a de facto partition of the country, similar to what has happened in Laos. It is a defeatist strategy, since the enemy always has the initiative. The only sound reason I know to adopt such a strategy in Viet Nam would be as a prelude to withdrawal from the country...
...Similar "air shed" action is starting between some smog-bound states and is considered preferable to federally imposed air standards, which might not fit local climate conditions. Still, far greater federal action-especially money-is urgently needed to help cities build all kinds of waste-treating facilities. In fact, the Secretary of the Interior really ought to be the Secretary of the Environment. To unify federal leadership, he might well be given charge of the maze of rival federal agencies that now absurdly nibble only at their own slice of the pollution mess...
...seems to be building a similar rhetorical trap for itself by supporting the hysterical South Vietnamese position on the National Liberation Front. Some sort of coalition, linked with withdrawal of North Vietnamese and American troops, now seems the most likely basis for a compromise peace settlement. The Thieu-Ky regime has so far rejected any coalition out of hand, obviously aware that genuine cooperation would doom their military regime...
...Board of Trustees appointed a special committee of Board members "to study and recommend changes in the basic structure of the University." They also requested that a similar study be made by the Executive Committee of the Faculty, an ad hoc group of about 500 faculty members who have expressed their disagreement with the proposed student strike...