Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven months the argument raged. Johnson said little, but he was listening. Clifford threw all his weight behind arguments that persuaded the President to order the partial suspension of bombing of North Viet Nam on March 31 to get talks with Hanoi under way. Again, Clifford's view held sway when bombing was halted altogether on Oct. 31 in an effort to rescue the negotiations from stalemate...
...differences between the U.S. and its South Vietnamese allies over the glacial progress of the Paris peace talks have never been very far from the surface. Last week they burst into full public view in a transatlantic quarrel between U.S. Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford and South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen...
...then became deputy to Adlai Stevenson and Arthur Goldberg at the United Nations. In 1966, he retired to join the Council on Foreign Relations. In a 1964 book, The Age of Triumph and Frustration: Modern Dialogues, one of Yost's imaginary speakers sums up a diplomat's view of Realpolitik: "The hopes of international peace depend upon a firm disregard of the rights and wrongs of disputes, on which there can almost never be agreement, and on a purpose either to settle them by compromise or to ignore them...
LAST week the words that Malvina L Reynolds used in her celebrated 1964 folk song* to describe her view of the standardized world of suburbia's "little boxes on the hillside" seemed to assume new relevance. Two reports commissioned by the Federal Government-one on urban and the other on suburban problems-indicated that suburbia is hardly a refuge for those seeking escape from the blight of U.S. cities. The problems that have all but consumed many urban areas-the crime waves, the racial ghettos, the inadequate schools, the intermittent near collapse of essential services and the harshness...
...Inspired by the view of Daly City from San Francisco's Skyline Boulevard...