Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Listen! After the tremendous amount of money, arms, help and good U.S. blood we've poured into that area, if the South Vietnamese were anywhere near united in wanting the war won, it would have been won twice over. If they don't want it won, then what the hell are we doing? Going out looking for a fight...
...propose a federal budget on time if appropriations bills continued to lag. Two days later, the Senate made it clear that it would not act this year on his proposal for a lottery procedure for the draft. The bill passed the House, but Democratic leaders in the Senate want to reform the whole Selective Service Act and contend that this requires more time. The issue apparently will reemerge next year, but Nixon need not wait. He can institute certain reforms, short of a lottery system, by executive decree...
...business or the government. Stanford and Cornell are trying that solution with their own special labs.* It might please moderate students and faculty who do not object to weapons research as such but consider it out of place in a university. It definitely would not please the radicals, who want to stop all war-related research at the special labs, whether or not M.I.T. operates them...
...produces so many scientific dividends that its irrepressible president, Meyer Weisgal, 75, a former Broadway impresario, leaves on fund-raising tours with these parting words to his scientists: "Boys and girls, I am going to tell many lies about you and the Weizmann Institute. When I come back, I want all the lies to be true...
Sargeant also refused to speak to the demonstrators shortly after noon yesterday. "We're here to interview people who want to be employed," he said later, "not those who don't want to be employed...