Word: submit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rate of moving toward an end of the war, is to propose a coalition, an interim government in which the Viet Cong would be represented at the cabinet level. In the face of a government of that sort in which they participated they could conceivably submit to being disarmed. But in the face of the present government or any government formed on the basis of arrangements presently being made in Saigon, it seems to me to be not entirely in good faith to ask the Viet Cong to lay down their arms...
...later the defense department issued a statement in a letter to a Congressman dated October 24, 1966, in which they said that your speech "includes the intent that the Viet Cong military units would also be deactivated in any proposed withdrawal of external forces from North Vietnam," and I submit once again that that means the only armed force left in the country would be the South Vietnamese army at whose mercy everyone else would...
...responsible for its actions in Vietnam. The government of the United States has demanded and received a privileged position for its statements. Despite the fact that all its actions are widely defended in the mass media, and any government spokesman has any platform he desires, it still refuses to submit its policy to critical scrutiny in public debate. For example, government representatives have consistently refused to accept invitations to appear at teach-ins for the last year refusal to debate in the face of widespread demand...
...Harvard autonomy of action by the University is a matter of fact, and unwillingness to bow to external pressure has been demonstrated at all levels, from the President's stand against loyalty oaths to the Athletic Dept.'s refusal to submit to NCAA policing. It is thus easy to assume academic freedom to be a matter of fact on American campuses. I had felt that the battle was won and the precedent irrevocably set more than sixty years ago when the University of Wisconsin gained freedom from interference by state legislature. I have recently learned from conversations with members...
...worry about integrating the city's school system, has decided to try to blunt the cutting edge of the Commonwealth's racial imbalance law. He is asking the General Court for permission to borrow $6.3 million to cover funds withheld by the state last year, when Boston failed to submit a satisfactory plan for integration; that permission should be refused...