War in Southeast Asia Persists as Peace Hopes Fade
A Washington Post analysis notes that Johnson and Rusk seek steps before January 20 but warn the war in Vietnam is far from over. It argues disengagement will be slow and complex, requiring reciprocal troop withdrawals and difficult cease-fire talks, with a political settlement essential. Senator Stennis cautions hard fighting remains.
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Johnson
Dean Rusk
Southeast Asia
Washington Post
Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Viet Cong
Popular Front
Cambodia
Laos
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Nixon
John Stennis
Mississippi
Senate Armed Services Committee
Paris
Nixon Hope for 1969 Vietnam Peace From Scranton Report
William Scranton’s Europe trip findings suggest Hanoi ready to talk peace and a possible Korea-type settlement by 1969. Neutral diplomats report Soviet pressure to end bombing and a more reasonable U S stance, with South Vietnam poised to assume defense duties by mid year.
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Washington
William Scranton
Europe
Nixon
Vietnam
Pennsylvania
Paris
Scranton
Hanoi
Soviet Union
Johnson
Dean Rusk
Alexei Kosygin
Rusk
U.S
North Vietnam
Russia
Southeast Asia
Lyndon Johnson
Exodus of U S Diplomats Signals Major Policy Shakeup
Washington reports a mass retirement of veteran diplomats and seventh floor State Department officials on Jan. 20. Key ambassadors Charles Bohnsen Llewelyn Thompson David Bruce plus Averell Harriman Chester Bowles and Sargent Shriver are among those leaving. concerns of policy disruption loom amid Southeast Asia and Near East tensions. Howard Samuels promotes Project Own to back Negro-owned businesses as a form of black capitalism. He stresses SBA guarantees not loans and frames it as empowering black communities to self-help.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Dean Rusk
Charles Bohnsen
Llewelyn Thompson
Soviet Union
David K. E. Bruce
London
Averell Harriman
Paris
Moscow
Chester Bowles
India
Goveror
Connecticut
Congress
Sargent Shriver
John F. Kennedy
France
Henry Cabot Lodge
Nixon
West Germany
U.S
Robert Wagner
New York
Spain
Carter Burgess
Defense Department
Eisenhower
Argentina
H. Gardner Ackley
Rome
John Hayes
Switzerland
William Heath
Texas
Sweden
Fulton Freeman
Mexico
George McGhee
Gemany
John Leddy
European
Corey Oliver
Latin America
William Bundy
Far East
Luke Battle
Near East
Edward Ray
William Gaud
AID
Anthony Solomon
Leonard Marks
USIA
Southeast Asia
William Costello
Trinidad and Tobago
Richard Nixon
Howard Samuels
Small Business Administration
Samuels
Harlem
Watts
William Raspberry
Washington Post
SBA
Nixon’s Victory Seen Through Public Conservative Leanings
Harris poll shows Americans as 38 percent conservative and 32 percent middle of the road, with Nixon rated 36 percent conservative and 31 percent middle of the road. Across regions races and education, conservatives and moderates outpace liberal views, suggesting Nixon would win a landslide if voters reflected this philosophy.
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Richard M. Nixon
Harris
Nixon
East
West
Rioters’ Plan Seen as Half Time Entertainment
A fragment suggests campus militants sought to gain exposure by staging riots as half time show, arguing wear and tear on bands and drum ent. majorettes would accompany the disruption.
New Administration urged to fix U S financial house
Henry J. Taylor argues the Nixon administration must marshal foreign assets, renegotiate aid funds, and cut overseas dependents to restore confidence in the dollar. He contends a balanced trade alone cannot prevent gold outflow and calls for ending budget deficits and waste. He cites Public Law 480 payments and high overseas costs as key drains on US finances.
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Nixon
Washington
Washington Robin Hoods
Red Ink
London
U. S
United States
U.S
Secretary of the Treasury
Robert B. Anderson
Treasury
New Frontier
Budget Bureau
Europe
America
Defense Department
Johnson opens unfinished tax reform and telecoms push
President Johnson enters the final weeks of his term with key tasks on tax reform and national communications policy. A comprehensive reform plan, including a minimum income tax concept and estate tax revisions, awaits his recommendations to Congress. A high level task force on global communications weighs options affecting AT and T and allied firms.
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Washington
Johnson
White House
Congress
United States
Nixon
Jacob K. Javits
N. Y
Treasury
Wright Patman
D-Tex
House Banking and Currency Comittee
House
Senate
Global Communications
Eugene V. Rostow
Truth and color in Christian history and black nationalism
Author argues against black nationalist claims about Jesus et al and Africa's church history. He cites Ethiopia, James Bruce, and Haile Selassie to show Christianity here predates modern movements, emphasizes nonracial spirituality, and rebukes hues as irrelevant to faith. He contrasts Augustine and Augustine's Tunisia with color theory. He asserts God is not a respecter of skins.
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Albert Cleage
Detroit
Cleage
Jesus of Nazareth
Egypt
St. Paul
Africa
Church of
Ethiopia
Holy Family
J. M. Reid
James Bruce
Kinnaird
Norton
Bruce
Abyssinia
Mohammed Gran
Ethopia
Haile Selassie
Christ
St. Augustine
Carthage
Tunisia
Augustine
Julius Caesar
Confucius
St. Thomas Aquinas
God
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Andrew Tully
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Drew Pearson
Henry J. Taylor
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Italy
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Canada
Rio de Janeiro
Bermuda
Kennedy
Robert Allen and
John Goldsmith
LBJ
AT & T
Russell Kirk
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