Word: southeast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truth is that both men are desparately out of touch with the mood and the needs of the people they propose to govern. Neither has come close to challenging the rationale for American aggression in Southeast Asia, and neither seems capable of the kind of complete disavowal which can best pave the way for an across the board restructuring of U.S. foreign policy. Humphrey for his part makes the conventional liberal analysis of American society and its ills, and offers the conventional liberal formulas to remedy them. Nixon repeats the stale Republican refrain about high taxes and excessive government spending...
...just past 3 a.m. last week when the deafening roar of high explosive split the quiet moonlit night. The blast slammed the Greek tanker Eleftheroupolis against its pier near the Nha Be tank farm southeast of Saigon, Despite the constant allied watch on shipping along the entire 30-mile length of the Long Tau channel, which links Saigon and the sea, a Viet Cong frogman had attached a 100-lb. charge to the vessel's anchor chain. Damage was minor: one compartment was ruptured, but the jet fuel inside did not ignite...
...reevaluate U.S. commitments abroad, the opening portion of his speech belies his intention--or ability--to meet that need. Humphrey justified the policies of the past four years with the frayed phrases of the domino theory. By its stand, he argued, the U.S. has permitted other sappling nations in Southeast Asia to protect themselves against the communist menace. In addition, we cannot withdraw unilaterally because such action would open Southeast Asia to "more violence... more aggression... more instability." If the Vice-President still sees unrest in Southeast Asia simply as the march of aggressive communism, he is a long...
...speech Humphrey set forth a four point plan for bringing an honorable peace to South Vietnam. The aim of his steps, he made clear, would be to deescalate the conflict in Southeast Asia...
...cancer was arrested by modern methods, he has an abiding nostalgia for old Russian peasant remedies, and a distrust of medical intervention as destructive of the organic relation of man to nature. He was officially rehabilitated in 1957. He found a job teaching mathematics in Ryazan, 120 miles southeast of Moscow. It was harder finding a house. Finally he built one atop a garage, using three walls of surrounding buildings for his own walls and adding a front and a roof...