Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...native Taiwanese but pro-Nationalist extremists who most threaten the serenity of Chiang's island fief. A bomb went off last October in a USIS library, and last month another smashed a Bank of America branch. The incidents remain unexplained, but just in case they presage more anti-U.S. explosions, American businessmen have begun to seal off auxiliary entrances to stores and factories and to hire extra guards...
...fact, even that the colonels are being used by the U.S. for contact in the African continent. There is a mystique in North Africa of military coups, very unfortunate but there is a mystique. And this has been exploited by these characters, by the U. S. military...
...read Robert Kennedy's Thirteen Days he knows that members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff counseled President Kennedy to launch an all-out attack on Russia even after the crisis was over. In contrast to this, a Russian attempt to oppose our use of nuclear brinkmanship-which the U. S. employed to assert that it alone has the right to surround other countries with nuclear weapons-suggests a triumph of moderation...
Questioned as to why the Thai ambassador to the U. S. could only be contacted in Ottawa, Pasztor replied, "I don't know what he's doing in Ottawa. You know these guys-they're always moving around...
Many of those who are repulsed by the war in Vietnam and who demand an immediate withdrawal of all U. S. troops regard the "Counter Teach-In" as a challenge and insult to the anti-war peace forces of this community. Yet we do not feel that the way to further our cause is to prevent the South Vietnamese "ambassador" from speaking. To do so will only reinforce stereotypes of "crazy radicals." Yet silence tonight will be constued by the administration as support for its illegal and immoral...