Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mark Hatfield asked for "a more rapid withdrawal of American troops"; George McGovern wanted an immediate pullout. On the House side, a vague resolution in support of eventual disengagement drew 109 cosponsors. But liberal Republicans Donald Riegle Jr. of Michigan and Paul McCloskey Jr. of California produced something stronger: a proposal to repeal, effective at the end of 1970, the 1964 Tonkin Gulf resolution under which President Johnson proceeded to bomb North Viet Nam and build the U.S. troop level in South Viet Nam past the half-million mark. None of the flat antiwar resolutions have a chance of passing...
...where the Soviets hinted that they might even launch a preventive strike against China's nuclear installations unless Peking agreed to negotiations aimed at settling the conflict. The war of nerves was threatening to get out of hand. Last week, after months of trying to face down the stronger Soviets, the Chinese blinked first...
...like Goodell and other recent arrivals in the anti-war camp, the stronger inclination is to disavow Hanoi's acclaim and find ways of proving that responsible anti-war stands don't actually serve the North Vietnamese or National Liberation Front. But for those of us who aren't running for re-election next year. it is possible and very worthwhile to ask whether we should continue to pretend that we're not supporting the enemy in Vietnam when by our actions we plainly are. In fact, the anti-war movement has reached the stage where it finally...
Pusey was one of three Ivy League presidents who did not sign the letter. Kingman Brewster Jr., president of Yale, had sent a stronger letter to Nixon last Thursday, asking for unconditional withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. A spokesman for John Sloan Dickey, pres-ident of Dartmouth. said that Dickey thinks he can be "more effective if he doesn't take public stands in foreign affairs. Dickey, who was a State Department official before going to Dartmouth, has in the past expressed his opposition...
...report, responding to campus criticisms and recommending continuation of ROTC, called upon colleges and universities to play stronger roles in ROTC affairs...