Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the start, roughly 25,000 was the target figure. The President could have rounded up every cook and clerk and made a more dramatic gesture, recalling as many as 100,000. He rejected that idea: to act responsibly in his view meant pulling out a maximum of 70,000 troops this year, and to remove them all at once would have looked too much like what White House insiders call "an elegant bugout." In any event, there would be opportunity later to take out more support personnel. To underline his seriousness, Nixon felt that most...
...withhold support from the $2.65 billion foreign-aid bill. It is a risky maneuver, since the Administration could saddle them with the political blame if the bill fails to pass. But it is also a measure of their discontent that they are taking that risk to dramatize their view that domestic needs have higher priority...
...Basic Economy Corp., which finances development projects in poorer nations. Knaebel said: "It's the old question: do you want revolution, or do you want to go to work and try to develop resources and improve the world? I think that people today have rejected the New Left view that the system is rotten. They want to get in the system and do something about it, to work for the ends that they think are worthwhile. It's really a new use of power and money for good...
...readily available abroad. Senator Hart has, perhaps extravagantly, accused the oil companies of "playing Russian roulette with national security" by supporting import restriction while drawing down the domestic supply. Ted Kennedy scoffs that the industry maintains that "our reserves will be conserved if we consume them first." In view of such attacks, Congress is likely next year to increase the import quotas...
...face who attempts to function behind a life mask he has fashioned for himself, is as direct as any contemporary exploration of the identity-crisis theme. The Ruined Map, his newest novel to be translated into English, involves the Japanese version of a traditional Western private eye, but the view is strictly from an Eastern slant. The suspense is stirred up metaphysically rather than neatly plotted. The landscape is always as delicate as it is ominous...