Word: withe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The fact that the U.S. Government was finally-and firmly-coming to grips with the crime impressed many. At the NATO ministerial conference in Brussels, Secretary of State William Rogers acknowledged the Administration's shock and expressed hope that justice would be served.
British press and politicians had reacted immediately, and emotionally, to the massacre. The editor of the liberal, antiwar New Statesman wrote that "responsibility for the Pinkville massacre -and for how many others?-lies squarely with the American nation as a whole." By contrast, The Economist rationalized that whenever a country...
The Communist world was predictably condemnatory. In Moscow, a statement was signed by 24 Soviet intellectuals, including Composer Dmitri Shostakovich and Nobel Physicist Nikolai Semenov. The words chosen by these brilliant men were singularly shrill: "The U.S. military followed in the tracks of the Nazi criminals." In East Germany, about...
In any ranking of urgent domestic priorities, dealing with inflation is clearly first. For the moment at least, it is more urgent than even the task of providing urban housing or filling other social needs. For that reason, probably the last thing the U.S. needs right now is a tax...
Yet last week the Senate passed a massive tax cut, the biggest since 1964, to take effect at the worst possible time for the economy. "A matchless performance in fiscal irresponsibility," declared the Administration's phrasemaker, Vice President Spiro Agnew, in a New Orleans speech. Many others agreed with...