Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHEN he went to the Pentagon in March, Clark Clifford was cast as a hawk. That was largely because Lyndon Johnson had told and retold the story of how Clifford, in the fall of 1965, had argued against what was to become a 37-day bombing halt over North Viet Nam. But the casting was misleading. Then chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Clifford was opposed to a pause in the bombing principally because of its timing. The U.S. then was just beginning to build up its forces, and could ill afford the sudden upsurge...
Tinhorn Dictator? Clifford's rebuke privately pleased U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman, who agreed that the brick-walling over procedures has gone on long enough. Still, Harriman took pains to try to soothe Ky, went so far as to spend at one point 75 minutes conferring with...
...hardly mollified. The Secretary of Defense, he declared, had "shown a gift of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time." At a reception in his honor, Ky went farther. "Do you ever hear the Russians or the Chinese criticizing North Viet Nam?" he fumed. "My problem is I have to fight not only my enemies but also my so-called friends. Those who talk are not especially my friends. They sometimes talk too much. They think that by insulting me they will make me change my mind. They make a mistake. I would like them to shut...
...from standing for Communism." He gleefully told how he instructed three House Un-American Activities Committee agents in that difference. "They'd previously been unable to distinguish between socialism and rheumatism," he said. "I assured them that we didn't want to overthrow their Government, and they went away happy...
...Costa e Silva chose an obvious audience. In a 15-minute speech, the retired marshal gave the commencement address to the graduating class of the army's high-command school in Rio de Janeiro. Since the audience included military men who had engineered the coup, Costa e Silva went out of his way to stress two points. One, hardly necessary for him to state to such a group, was that the officers were justified in their crackdown...