Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Agnew did not name names, but the White House seems particularly incensed by the correspondent who "twice contradicted the President's statement about the exchange of correspondence with Ho Chi Minh." That was CBS's Marvin Kalb. Despite Nixon's claim that Ho was intransigent, Kalb observed that "the Ho Chi Minh letter contained some of the softest, most accommodating language found in a Communist document concerning the war in Viet Nam in recent years...
Here we have some paranoia mixed in with the psychology. When radicals occupy a building, Blaine is saying, they don't do it because they want administration response, as they claim. Their real motive is "to provoke violence" which will set off a chain of events resulting in the destruction of the university. Blaine ignores the obvious fact that building seizures can be effective in winning demands-the elimination of ROTC, for example-which have nothing whatsoever to do with destroying the university...
Those who take part in Wednesday's moratorium- whether liberals or conservatives, internationalists or isolationists, eagles or doves, knaves and fools or human- itarians and people of sensitivity- have one thing in common: They claim, they are acting on the basis of "conscience...
...figure of 250,000 attributed to the number of marchers was termed "modest" by police Chief Jerry Wilson, New Mobe sources claim that over 500,000 attended the march and the rally...
...Opponents of the project claim that some of the programs proposed for the Cambridge Project- such as studies of revolutionary movements- could be used by the Pentagon to undermine national liberation actions. Deutsch denied the charge, saying, "There are no programs that deal with counterinsurgency...