Word: conducting
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Ironically, it is still doubtful whether the Administration ever intended the Cambodian border raids to assume proportions of such overriding importance to the conduct of the war. To be sure, in announcing them the President equated an American failure to act with being "humiliated" and "defeated" in Southeast Asia. He insisted that the incursions were essential to his basic goals: Vietnamization and American withdrawal. Yet as President, he had never suggested that the Communist sanctuaries, in existence for five years, threatened to doom either plan. Nixon's explanation was that the Communists were now "linking" the sanctuaries and threatening...
...steadily disengage from Indochina without enduring further crises. In the Senate, which has virtually forsaken its other business to debate Cambodia, the President's support has dropped noticeably. Adept maneuvering by Nixon's supporters will probably prevent the passage of any meaningful limits on his powers to conduct the war, but the Senate has informally served notice that it will not abide any further escalation...
...months at least, a valuable measure of relief for the southern half of South Viet Nam, especially in the Mekong Delta, where 60% of the rural population lives. On the other hand, the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam has shown itself only too eager to conduct the war outside its own country; its operations in Cambodia have greatly raised its morale. But if Saigon commits large numbers of men to fighting in Cambodia, the job of bringing security to South Viet Nam will inevitably be slowed. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, no doubt reacting in part...
...What this place needs is 88 acres of corn and a few cows. Somebody ruined a good farm." That zinger gained Hill, the second highest money winner on the tour last year with earnings of $156,423, another $150 fine for conduct unbecoming a grump. After blasting their way out of a Sahara of sand traps in the first round, some players were also ready to blast Jones for the 40 m.p.h. winds that caused such stars as Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Nicklaus to shoot 79, 80 and 81 respectively. Said Lee Trevino: "If anyone shoots 281 on this...
Walzer neglects the more decisive question of moral responsibility: the responsibility of power, the limits and conduct of state authority. He confines his attention to men out of power, and only such men as can enter into the complexities of a moral relation. Responsibility here refers to men with "plural obligations," men committed in different directions with their commitments changing over time...