Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Could the allies expect that Hanoi would not veto the Saigon delegation, particularly in view of the fact that Washington was willing to accept some sort of N.L.F. presence at the talks...
...himself embroiled in a bitter debate between North Viet Nam's pro-Chinese and pro-Soviet factions. One or more messages were apparently sent seeking more information. The Administration noted simply that no "breakthrough" response had come from Hanoi. Some U.S. officials feared that the North Vietnamese, in view of the forthcoming presidential elections in the U.S., might be holding out for a better deal...
Nixon also left one important and familiar question begging: When the stockpiles of both powers already ensure a massive overkill, why should the U.S. add to its thermonuclear hoard in or der to convince any potential enemy that all-out warfare would signify immediate devastation? Nixon's view is that keeping ahead of the Soviets in a nuclear race would ensure peace by demonstrating that the U.S. had not turned soft...
...Thee. He never could forget "a shameful, futile, endless two hours one Saturday afternoon when I rolled around the unspeakably dirty floor of the main schoolroom with a little British bastard who had insulted my country." Such experiences, he later felt, gave him a "too romantic, too idealistic view of America ... I had no experience of evil in terms of Americans." Briton Hadden: born in Brooklyn to a prosperous banking family, wanted to become a professional baseball player but wasn't that good; mischievous, mercurial and iconoclastic. After they met, and competed, at both Hotchkiss and Yale, they performed...
...snapped up, and his six one-man shows have all been sellouts, although his prices range up to $6,000. Still only 31, Poons has become a prodigy of the Manhattan art world, but he clearly has no intention of resting on his reputation. His newest canvases, now on view at Manhattan's Castelli Gallery, display a totally new style (see color opposite...