Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of Westmoreland's visit, Administration spokesmen are pointedly leaving the door open to the possibility of further air raids. Among the possible targets are the remaining MIG bases, particularly Phuc Yen; two big power plants near Hanoi; and, above all, the Haiphong waterfront, through which 70% of the North's war supplies are funneled...
Notable Absentee. On last week's visit, before he addressed Congress, Westmoreland spent three hours briefing the President and his top advisers on the war. He answered questions on enemy supplies and strategy, the pacification program and the tense situation along the DMZ, where 36 North Vietnamese battalions were poised for a fight. Undoubtedly, the question of U.S. manpower was also raised, and whether to increase it from the 475,000-man level now projected for year's end. Mississippi's Senator John Stennis, whose inside information on the war has proved highly accurate in the past...
...Last Mile. The results of Westmoreland's eight-day visit may prove even more far-reaching. For now, as they have not been in the past, the cards are out on the table. The outcome should not be to stifle responsible debate, but rather to make it more relevant to realpolitik...
...wants to fight. Well, De Gaulle is like the boy daring the other one to spit over his arm. But I'm not going to do it. I'm just going to step back." He suggested that De Gaulle come to the U.S. for a visit, but did not press the invitation when De Gaulle chose to treat it as a mere pleasantry...
...long lines of relatives queueing up at Piraeus soccer stadium, the local race track and other detention centers to bring clothing and food to the 25 politicians and 5,000 alleged Communists who remained in army custody. Nervous about its image abroad, the government let foreign newsmen briefly visit the two star prisoners: Former Premier George Papandreou, 79, and his 48-year-old son Andreas, the antimonarchical leftists whose victory in next month's now-cancelled elections seemed so certain that the army had felt compelled to move first...