Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considering avenues to compromise that he cannot afford to discuss publicly for fear of alienating important hard-line factions among his political supporters. He again let it be known that he could agree to holding elections in South Viet Nam before 1971, the year they are now scheduled to take place, if that would speed a negotiated end to the war. The N.L.F. called for such special elections in its ten-point proposal early last month in Paris...
Urgent Change. Rogers indicated that the Administration fully expects the South Vietnamese to begin taking over some of the combat burden borne by U.S. troops. "I have no doubt that the government of South Viet Nam is moving in this direction," he said. "They are willing to take over more of the responsibility." As Nixon met with Thieu last weekend, the urgency of that change was inescapable...
...role as the party of progress and change." No such programs have materialized. Kennedy's viewpoint has considerable support, but not among the majority of committee chairmen, who retain much of the legislative power. One Democratic chairman, Carl Perkins of the House Education and Labor Committee, attempted to take an independent stand on an important education bill, extending the authorization for federal assistance from two years to five. A coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats easily defeated the move...
...unhappy about the prospect of losing Okinawa. Strategically, however, removal of nuclear weapons and bombers should have little effect on overall U.S. capability. The four Polaris submarines and five Navy aircraft carriers now in the area, plus nuclear-armed planes in South Korea and possibly the Philippines, could take up the slack. A logical pullback position for long-range bombers and ground troops would be Guam, a U.S. possession 1,400 miles southeast of Okinawa...
...uprising, nearly every Communist Party in the world had supported the Soviet action. This time every major foreign party expressed disapproval, ranging from violent protest (Italy, Sweden, Yugoslavia) to distaste tempered by expediency (France and Cuba). Even Ru mania, a member of the Warsaw Pact, though it did not take part in the invasion, censured the action. Only in significant parties that depend on the Soviet dole (such as those in the U.S. and most in Latin America and the Middle East) endorsed the move...