Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What earthly purpose do you serve by showing our wounded or dead in such heartbreaking pictures? What consolation is this for the families who have lost men in battle? You speak about the poor taste the comedians use on television today-well, you top them all with your choice of pictures. I am wondering if some of the news media are trying to color the public's view about this...
...account of the taking of the Pueblo [Feb. 2], an account that we cannot read without feelings of shame. What is happening in our Navy, which once responded so manfully to the command, "Pipe all hands to repel boarders"? If the captain of the Pueblo was instructed never to use his machine guns, something is wrong with our leadership. Time and again military units of the U.S. have been insulted or knocked about because a cold-war enemy shrewdly guessed that the unit would suffer such treatment...
...strength than they showed in the past two weeks. Nor is it true that the Viet Cong alone guard the grail of Vietnamese nationalism. They are simply better organized than the hopelessly fragmented moderates, who also qualify as genuine nationalists; and the V.C. are far more adept at the use of terror and brutality to gain their ends. Still, despite more than a few drawbacks, Galbraith's proposals do offer at least a foundation for a responsible opposition policy...
...enormous output of food. It also had incredible military muscle; it possessed the world's only nuclear weapons. At the end of 1945 the U.S. had all the classic attributes of power. It had, says Hunter College Political Science Professor John G. Stoessinger, "the capacity to use its tangible and intangible resources to affect the behavior of other nations." And after a long era of isolation and inaction, the U.S. felt a responsibility to exercise its power in behalf of rehabilitation and order...
Inevitably, such non-nuclear confrontations sometimes lead to armed conflict. Then, as the U.S. has learned, and is still learning in Viet Nam, the limits of power expand into exasperation. Determined not to use its nuclear might, a big power must be doubly cautious with its conventional weapons. For no one can be certain of the level of warfare that might earn a smaller belligerent some nuclear assistance from outside. And these days, even conventional arms are so devastating that they demand restraint...