Word: threatenings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson Administration, of course, is unwilling even to consult dovish Senators before it makes decisions on the war. Last week Fulbright had to threaten a delay of the foreign aid authorization to compel Secretary of State Dean Rusk to testify, but Gore would rather not use that sort of pressure. He is confident that the complexity of world problems and the force of public opinion will lead future Administrations to seek the Senate's advice, if only to share the blame for their policies...
...Friday, the Charles will overflow its banks and threaten "severe flood damage" in several areas near Needham, Civil Defense authorities said last night...
...always in the future. "The real opposite of nostalgic," he says, "is psychedelic, the reverse of remembering is hallucinating, which means that, insofar as the New Western is truly New, it, too, must be psychedelic." So the Red Man reappears, bearing his gifts of marijuana and peyote that threaten 20th century values in much the same way as the white man's whisky threatened the Indian way of life. The New West then is not a place but a state of altered consciousness, a kind of new frontier of madness...
Long said the ambassador often pointed his finger "belligerently" during the hour-long talk and once commented, "If you are pure Vietnamese, you would not draw up a statement like this." Then, Long said, "he began to threaten. He said, 'Of course, you are now in a free country, and can say what you like. But remember the consequences on the people you love and like...
...Committee must consider whether this country would appear ludicrous condemning South Africa's policies in light of the recently-published Riot Commission report: "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white--separate and unequal . . . Discrimination and segregation have long permeated much of American life; they now threaten the future of every American." There is a difference, of course; one nation enforces its discrimination and the other condemns it. Perhaps the United States could acknowledge its shame while blasting the South Africans. But, of course, it should not come to this, because the Olympics are not the place...