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...William Fulbright...
THERE are very few people in the world who know as much as J. William Fulbright about United States foreign policy. The outspoken Arkansas Democrat served in the Senate from 1945 to 1974, holding the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his last 16 years, longer than any other senator in history. He also developed the educational exchange program that bears his name and, as a freshman member of the House, sponsored a war-time resolution that supported America's entrance into the United Nations...
...senator, Fulbright came up with some of the most controversial interpretations of U.S. policies and events, ranging from the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s to the Guatemalan intervention in 1965 to the war in Vietnam. Fulbright's thoughtful policy analyses and objections earned him the animosity of some colleagues in the Senate, as well as some executive officials, but that seems to bother Fulbright little, if at all. He begins his new book The Price of Empire, "If I am remembered, I suppose it will be as a dissenter...
Three winners of the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (DDRA) will soon depart Harvard for a year of intensive study and travel abroad...
...Fulbright competition has already opened, and will be discussed at a graduate Fulbright orientation meeting tomorrow at 4 p.m. in the Cronkite Graduate Center...