Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predict whether or when a settlement will be achieved, but the President meanwhile has been edging toward a reduction of U.S. forces in Viet Nam. The first pullback might take place this summer, even if there is no reciprocity on the other side. Whatever else it might accomplish, a reduction in the American troop level-perhaps including some combat units, for effect-would demonstrate to Hanoi that the South Vietnamese government is growing ever more capable of defending and unifying its territory...
...center, for which he hopes to raise an additional $1,000,000 in Canada. He regards the center as a kind of beau geste that will inspire others to help Africa help itself. "I have always believed in symbolic action," says Léger. "One man cannot accomplish everything, but by symbolic action he can incite others to do things...
...serious problem for Harvard at this point is Yale. The Elis managed to accomplish a victory over Princeton just as the Crimson had. The momentum has quickly shifted in Yale's favor, but, perhaps the Crimson has lost the over-confidence it seemed to suffer from at Dartmouth...
...plans for more federal aid, such as the Carnegie Commission proposals, would involve Congress further. Second, there is no doubt that public pressure for some kind of an end to university disorders is increasing. Americans want their problems over right away, and they still believe that getting tough can accomplish anything (Eric Hoffer said so in his congressional testimony...
...asking why this is so; thus opposition to the war is fine, and he would like to see it work, but his higher priority is in not changing any basic structures, and so he recommends another mass movement to end the war (McCarthy was fun, but what did it accomplish)?; for the ghettoes he recommends black capitalism (what's wrong with a black elite as long there is a black working class? It undoubtedly is even more efficient). However, when SDS raises issues that challenge the role of Harvard as an elite funnel, and the expansion to support this role...