Word: statements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your misleading statement, which would include as Wasps such Presidents as Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James Knox Polk, James Buchanan, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley and Woodrow Wilson, stuns my Celtic image. They were Celts...
...ruled that the Pueblo crewmen were not prisoners of war since the U.S. is not at war with North Korea; instead, they are "illegal detainees." Paul Warnke, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, finds it "unthinkable that these men will be court-martialed for signing a false statement. All the confession shows is the bestiality of the treatment they received. The harm done to the national interest is next...
...Neither the U.S. military nor the public seems as angered by the confessions as they were in the Korean War -although leniency still does not extend to P.O.W.s who have harmed fellow prisoners by cooperating with the enemy. Says Paul Warnke: "You're allowed to sign a propaganda statement to save your own skin but not to save your skin at the expense of another...
...only solid proposal of the day came from the U.S. In a brief statement, Lodge suggested the immediate re-establishment of the Demilitarized Zone as an inviolate buffer zone between the two Viet Nams. He also urged efforts toward troop withdrawal by both sides. Saigon's chief delegate, Ambassador Pham Dang Lam, echoed the American proposals but could not resist a little propaganda on the side. "You'll never take the South by force," he warned the Communists. Shortly thereafter, the 6½-hour conference ended with an agreement to reconvene this week...
...statement, the Ad Hoc Committee once more presented the case for the creation of a whole new department at Harvard--a department of Afro-American studies. The statement avoided any allusion to Rosovsky, but the intent was clear: disturbed by rumors that Rosovsky committee was going to recommend some compromise--like an expansion of course offerings--the black students wanted to make a final plea for a unified Afro-American department...