Word: viets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were the best of all possible worlds Reality, inevitably, intervenes. Israel will not deliver part of her security to the U.N. the very symbol of the world's capitulation to Arab economic power. Nor can it, sadly, rely on American guarantees, let alone the international variety; witness South Viet Nam in 1975. Final responsibility for its security will rest with Israel, and eyeball-to-eyeball negotiations with leaders like Sadat...
...Russian anarchists called bezmo-tivniki (motiveless ones). Says Martin Greiffenhagen, a political scientist at the University of Stuttgart: "Behind the acts of terror stands neither revolutionary theory nor strategy." The American radicals who blew up the Army Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin seven years ago had Viet Nam for a rationale. The West German terrorists, who command no support in the working class, have only a vague feeling of solidarity with the Third World and a homicidal hatred of their own country...
...possible that some thing of this got tied in with the kids' feelings that the fathers had lost their legitimacy." In addition, according to the Rothman-Lichter theory, America represented authority and goodness to the post war generation; but then, with racial troubles and the war in Viet Nam, the U.S., too, lost its legitimacy for Germans...
...slam by heading embassies in Bonn (under Dwight Eisenhower) and London (under John Kennedy) as well as Paris. His last assignment, fittingly, was as Ambassador to NATO, and ended only last year. Though Bruce was a lifelong Democrat, Richard Nixon named him to head the American delegation at the Viet Nam peace talks in Paris, and later the U.S. liaison office in Peking. Said West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, upon Bruce's departure from Bonn: "If you Americans can't stand Bruce back here again, at least send somebody just like...
Sevareid grew more conservative with the years, denounced many young Americans who protested the Viet Nam War, and wasted little sympathy on the Third World. "I refuse to feel guilty about their poverty," he said in a radio chat last month with Cronkite. "Look at black Africa. There's very little there that's worth much in 20th century terms...