Word: statements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against the Viet Nam war; that is barely half of 1 % of the U.S. population. Yet M-day 1969 was a peaceful protest without precedent in American history because of who the participants were and how they went about it. It was a calm, measured and heavily middle-class statement of weariness with the war that brought the generations together in a kind of sedate Woodstock Festival of peace. If the young were the M-day vanguard, many in the ranks wore the housewife's apron and the businessman's necktie, and many who clambered to enlist were political leaders...
Then Nixon released an off-the-record statement made earlier in which he had predicted that the U.S. would be out of the war within three years "on a basis that will promote peace in the Pacific." That deadline happens to coincide with the presidential election. He had already scheduled an address to the nation on Viet Nam for Nov. 3, just a year and two days after Lyndon Johnson ended all U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam. In it, he is likely to propose new action. If the present battlefield lull continues, Nixon may announce a suspension...
...fixed schedule for pulling out all ground combat forces within a year and all remaining Air Force and Army personnel by the end of 1972. In Washington, former U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg came out for an immediate end to all U.S. offensive military operations, combined with a presidential statement that the U.S. will discuss at the Paris talks a timetable for "prompt and systematic withdrawal." Nixon in the past has accepted the idea of a cease-fire in Viet Nam only if it is supervised by an international body agreed to by both sides. In June, he said that without...
Serious Deficiency. For all its limitations, the show makes an eloquent statement about American art in recent years. Geldzahler's decision to devote whole rooms to single artists of his choice rather than include everybody results in a perspective that he himself probably did not anticipate. In the Met's vast spaces, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell and even Barnett Newman wither. But the works of Ad Reinhardt, Hans Hofmann and Helen Frankenthaler take on new authority. The show's most serious deficiency is in sculpture, and Geldzahler admits that, with the exception of David Smith...
...This week President Nixon plans to explain in a policy statement how he proposes to keep a campaign promise to raise the tonnage of U.S. trade carried in American ships from the present 6% to 30% by the mid-1970s. Maritime Administrator Andrew E. Gibson said last week that the Nixon program would support the building of new ships "designed for production, not as works of art." Though Gibson agreed with the proposition that efficient ships can compete internationally without an operating subsidy, he admitted that the end of Government aid was far away. Last year the Government spent...