Word: south
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows for sure whether they [the South Vietnamese] will be able to maintain the present military balance as U.S. troops are withdrawn," and that the "South Vietnamese are improving" [June 20]. Improving! Do you realize that we sent advisers there in 1950 to improve these people? Nineteen years. Man, that's one generation. If they haven't improved enough by now to cope with their military problems, let's face it, they never will. Let's give them a chance to try. North Viet Nam has the will -let's see if the South Vietnamese...
...acceptable formula. Then, at the urging of federal mediators and a newly formed citizens committee, talks began. They featured an interesting extra ingredient. In the middle of one session, Dr. McCord was summoned to take a telephone call from White House Aide Harry Dent, former Republican chairman of South Carolina. The details of the message were secret, but an agreement was soon reached...
...will be primarily a fact-finding effort. The chief concern, of course, will be Viet Nam (which he is not scheduled to visit) and the shape of post-war Asia. The President, said a White House official, "wants to begin to lay the foundation for a post-Viet Nam South Asia policy. He has had a long-standing concern for the region and is convinced that the U.S. must remain a Pacific power. In the long term, the concern is for a lasting Asian peace in which we are not dragged into conflict and the people can shape their...
...House Judiciary Committee, Nixon's Attorney General, John Mitchell, went against bipartisan sentiment on the committee by opposing a five-year extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Instead, he offered a package that would broaden coverage to the whole country but risk weakened enforcement in the South...
...enough in terms of aid and favorable trade. Rockefeller's trips have provided a focus for protest. Many Latin American nations are also unhappy with themselves and in search of new paths to progress. That combination of frustration, militancy and venturesomeness last week made news in five South American countries: - In Peru, the military government of General Juan Velasco Alvarado decreed a sweeping land-reform program that included the expropriating of some U.S. interests. It was one of the most drastic -and potentially effective-such reforms ever proclaimed in Latin America. >In Argentina, terrorists firebombed 13 supermarkets owned...