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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TOLSTOY, by Henri Troyat. Making masterly use of mountains of documents and diaries, the Russian-born biographer forges an unforgettable portrait of one of literature's greatest figures...
...conference "tomorrow" if possible and that he would consent to whatever initial agenda the other side might propose. The President also invited Thant to Washington this week to "thank him very much for another try." In fact, the Administration was fiercely yet helplessly exasperated by Hanoi's skillful use of inconclusive peace hints as a psychological counterweight to its bloody assaults on South Viet Nam. Furthermore, Communist propagandists in South Viet Nam assiduously spread the word that the U.S. was conniving with the North to sell out the Saigon regime and establish a coalition government that would include...
...Nuclear Rumble The controversy over Viet Nam was raised several megadecibels by widespread speculation that the Johnson Administration was considering use of tactical nuclear weapons in the war. Though high Administration officials repeatedly and categorically denied in private that the U.S. has either stored nukes in Viet Nam or even considered using them there, their public statements have been less than convincing. The series of dusty answers given by the President and his top aides set off alarums and warnings from London to Peking...
From that point on, Pusey asserted and re-asserted his theory of the University as an instrument of social change through its individuals, while the Council members pleaded for its use as a corporate social instrument. Stanley Hoffmann expressed the Council's position best when he said that the "rules of the game" which the University upholds tend to preserve the status...
...recently visited, I have talked about the concept of guaranteed neutralization. By guaranteed neutralization, I mean that North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia would be defused from cold war conflict, liberated from the destructive presence of a so-called "War of National Liberation," and relieved of the use or threat of force as a way of resolving disputes or pursuing political goals on their territory...