Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Irreconcilable Aims. What might happen next is far less clear. President Johnson has named as his negotiators Ambassador at Large Averell Harriman, 76, sometimes called "The Crocodile" for the snapping speed of his mind on complex problems, and Llewellyn Thompson, 63, Ambassador to Moscow. Both are veterans of many confrontations with the Communists. What can they negotiate...
...move. This proviso has now been dropped. Instead, Johnson urged Britain and the Soviet Union, co-chairmen of the 1954 Geneva Conference that ended the Indochina war, to do all within their power to move Hanoi toward talks. He announced that Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman and Llewellyn Thompson, Ambassador to Moscow, would be available to go to Geneva or any other suitable locale to talk peace. He urged Ho Chi Minh to respond positively...
...history, and that one could find without looking too hard a great many fine Marxist thinkers who observed all of the traditional standards of scholarship in their work, and whose presence would do credit to any university in the world. Men of the calibre of Christopher Hill, Edward Thompson, George Rude, Eric Hobsbawm, Albert Soboul, Maurice Dobb, Louis Althussen, and Herbert Marcuse, to mention only a few from a long list, were being referred...
Another minister, the Rev. C. Edward Thompson, 43, of New Kensington, Pa., stood atop the bunker, lifted his hands and cried out for mercy. A fusillade from a Communist automatic weapon killed him; his wife died moments later when the North Vietnamese sprayed the inside of the bunker with small-arms fire. On leaving the mission, the Reds kidnaped another American nurse, Miss Betty Olsen, 32, and Henry Blood of Portland, Ore., a member of the Wycliffe Bible Translators...
...contingent successfully defended its unblemished record in intercollegiate competition by defeating a strong Columbia team at the Brandeis Invitational Knockout Tournament. The members of that squad playing together for the last time are: Don Bloch, Peter Y. Connor, Lawrence A. Darby, Emmett Keeler, John V. Lindsey II, and Mark Thompson...