Word: williams
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...same time, Secretary of State William Rogers posed a scarcely concealed threat to Thieu. Rogers, while still a novice in the nuances of diplomacy, is a canny attorney who is not given to ill-considered statements. "We are not wedded to any government in Saigon," he said in a Washington press conference. He added that "the only principle to which the Administration is wedded is free choice," suggesting that the U.S. could accept any government that resulted from free elections in South Viet Nam; he did not insist that Thieu be included...
...Department of Defense. But he plainly insisted: "I am not a supporter of unilateral disarmament."* While many Congressmen have called for reduction of U.S. troop commitments in Europe, none have seriously suggested that NATO or any other U.S. military alliance be dismantled. Less than three months ago, Senator J. William Fulbright accused Defense Secretary Melvin Laird of using a "technique of fear." Fulbright has given aid and comfort to neo-isolationists at various times, but he does not advocate unilateral disarmament or the breakup of U.S. alliances. The dominant new mood in Congress is one of sober questioning, and Nixon...
Republican Congressman William Steiger returned from a tour of universities to report last week: "Vast numbers of bright, dedicated, sincere students are just as deeply disturbed as the so-called revolutionaries. The difference is that they have not yet rejected completely the view that they should not resort to violence...
...city's branch of the antipoverty Urban Coalition, Ditto sits on a 40-member board with people like Henry Ford and the chairman of General Motors. There, Ditto's words-even if couched in the abrasive patois of the ghetto-are listened to carefully. Says William T. Patrick Jr., New Detroit president: "Frank Ditto's is a valid voice. If Ditto is not there, Henry Ford is missing something...
...probably done more to dramatize the sorry state of U.S.-Latin American relations than anything since Richard Nixon's own tumultuous tour of the southern continent in 1958. Last week, conceding that there is "some discontent" among Latin Americans over their relations with the U.S., Secretary of State William P. Rogers declared that "there is no part of the world more important to us" and that the Administration does not want relations to deteriorate further...