Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter was written by Eric Seitz, a Berkeley student. Seitz said Sunday that the pledge to violate the law might threaten the signers' admission to local bar associations. Members of New York bar character committees declined to comment on Seitz's statement Monday...
Principal Threat. The clear implication of Bobby's statement was that his brother had had no use for either the "domino theory" or the argument that China might threaten U.S. security. Bobby was wrong on both counts. Two months before his death, John F. Kennedy was asked if he doubted the validity of the theory that a defeat in Viet Nam would imperil the rest of Southeast Asia. "No," he replied. "I believe it. I think that the struggle is close enough. China is so large, looms so high just beyond the frontiers, that if South Viet Nam went...
...husband Menelaus, who rails at Agamemnon for daring to dream of putting his daughter's life before Greek victory. This raises a question of moral ambiguity that runs through the play: Is this a war for a strumpet, or is it against a nest of barbarians who threaten the life of Greece? Euripides refuses to fob off the playgoer with an easy answer, for the question is fraught with pain and death...
...what grows out of that misunderstanding -- effort-reports, fund shortages due to the Vietnam war, and cases such as that of Berkeley mathematician Stephen Smale, whose grant renewal request was conditionally turned down by the National Science Foundation for what he charged were political considerations--threaten the entire relationship between the sciences and the federal government...
...also believes that the U.S. grossly overestimates Peking's power and its ability to threaten let alone conquer other Asian nations. He thinks that the U.S. blundered by waging a worldwide campaign to isolate Red China (though he concedes that China did a great deal to isolate itself), and he regards as "silly" and a "sham" the U.S. policy of recognizing the Nationalist regime on Taiwan as the legitimate government of China. Reischauer's prescription: grant immediate diplomatic recognition to Mao Tse-tung, seek Chinese admission to the U.N., and declare publicly that the U.S. wishes harmonious relations...