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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Institute officials put their plan in action at the Master's garage on DeWolfe Street and Memorial Drive. About a hundred SDS protesters waited outside--word had circulated that McNamara might try to sneak out through here--with some pro-McNamara counter-demonstrators. Sure enough, the door opened and a car pulled out. In the commotion that followed, some students tried to force an open path, others blocked the way, and hundreds ran over to join the action. It took some time before they realized that the car's occupant was not Robert McNamara, architect of the war, but Graham...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: A Night at the Forum | 10/3/1979 | See Source »

...hollering at the cops to let them in so they won't lose the places they earned by chilly endurance. The Secret Service insists on "sweeping" the entire Common first for hidden evil, a search-and-destroy operation that requires the pinstripe suit. When the guards finally give the word, the spectators dash towards the line of yellow and white barrels separating the notables from those who will sit in the same mud, but farther back...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A City Awaits A Pope | 10/2/1979 | See Source »

...slipped away by means of an elaborate ruse. Among other things, this involved a predawn drive to Chaklala Airport with Kissinger wearing sunglasses and a hat "to ensure that no stray pedestrian spotted me? an unlikely contingency at that hour in Islamabad, where my name was scarcely a household word." During his flight to Peking, Kissinger recalled how John Foster Dulles had refused to shake Chou En-lai's hand at the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina. "The slight, "he writes, "had not been forgotten; it was referred to on many occasions in the days afterward and on subsequent visits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE CHINA CONNECTION | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...single code word cabled from Kissinger to Nixon, "Eureka, " advised that the trip had been successful. After returning from Peking, Kissinger and Aide Winston Lord drafted a report to Nixon that exulted: "We have laid the groundwork for you and Mao to turn a page in history." On July 15 Nixon informed stunned television viewers of Kissinger's secret trip and his own plan to visit China some time before May 1972. In October 1971. Kissinger returned to China, with a team of "advance men, "to prepare for Nixon's own visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE CHINA CONNECTION | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...told Chou that I would accept his basic approach. We outlined the key joint positions, especially the paragraph concerning both countries' opposition to hegemony. Though this later became a hallowed Chinese word, it was first introduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE CHINA CONNECTION | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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