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Question of Veracity. In Moscow, Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko warned that the time had passed when "encroachments on the independence and freedom of peoples can go un punished." Perhaps more significant, Premier Aleksei Kosygin called the first press conference held by a Kremlin leader in Moscow since Nikita Khrushchev...
Richard Nixon's speech on the widening Indochinese war bore some remarkable -and haunting-similarities to speeches that the public has heard before. The earlier words are those of his predecessor, Lyndon Johnson. Samples:
We found the President an attentive listener. We spoke forcefully of the deep and widening apprehensions on campuses everywhere and the reasons for them. We want to assure the academic community that we heard and that we made clear the truth as we believe it to be.
The President must decide how much military aid, if any, and what kind, the U.S. should provide in response to Lon Nol's personal appeal for help. If Phnom-Penh were to fall, so would the non-Communist government of Cambodia. The North Vietnamese troops would then have even...
The trail of bodies in the Mekong added a particularly grisly new dimension to the war in Indochina. Other events through the week appeared to presage a widening of that seemingly endless conflict. The new government of Cambodian Premier General Lon Nol, reeling under widespread Communist border attacks, issued a...