Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President so far has balked at a further step-up in the air war against the North, the South is another matter. To explore the present status of the U.S. military effort there, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara left Washington at week's end for his eighth visit to Saigon since 1961, accompanied by General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and newly appointed Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach...
...Viet Nam, the U.S. had 180,000 men in the country and was just beginning to untangle the logistical lash-ups caused by the unprecedentedly swift buildup. This week he will find a force of 320,000 men who, in the eleven months that have intervened since his seventh visit, have kept the Reds from winning a single major battle, have 'discouraged them from mounting any attack in battalion strength or greater since March, and are finding that the badly hurt guerrillas are ever more willing to surrender. Seldom, if ever, have the Communist troops shown more willingness...
...extensive ever undertaken by an American President. Departing next week, Johnson will cover 25,000 miles, enough to girdle the globe, with stops in New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea. Though he said last week that "no consideration has been given" to a Viet Nam visit, he will probably make a quick side trip to a secure U.S. air base, such as Danang, and to an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin...
...matter, as Washington belatedly realized when it came to the task of ac commodating the 200 journalists who will cover Johnson's entire tour. Hastily the White House sent summonses for help to two former White House press secretaries-James Hagerty, who helped arrange Ike's 1959 visit to Asia, and Pierre Salinger, who helped plan John F. Kennedy's two European jaunts. At the same time, White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers left two weeks early to make advance arrangements...
...last visit to one of the totally bare cells, claimed Jordan, he was kept naked for almost eleven days, deprived of heat, light, bedding, ventilation, medical treatment and the most basic sanitary facilities. He appealed to San Francisco's U.S. District Judge George B. Harris, who thereupon indignantly issued his circuit's first federal injunction against state prison officials. Impressed with Jordan's "clear and convincing" testimony, which vividly described cells caked with human excrement, Judge Harris saw a patent violation of the Eighth Amendment's guarantee against "cruel and unusual punishment." He ordered California...