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...ideas for India's next Five-Year Plan. In his off hours, he courted Uganda's visiting Prime Minister Milton Apollo Obote, seeking to rekindle the Afro-Indian cooperation that Nehru had sparked. Through each meeting ran the thread of Shastri's approach: a concern with consensus that has marked his rule from the outset...
...policy of increasing ground troops in Viet Nam: "The bitter truth is that we can search the globe and look in vain for true and active supporters of our policy." Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse claimed that Johnson's Viet Nam policy was "not a consensus of our people ... it is a consensus among the State Department, Defense Department, Central Intelligence Agency and the White House staff." College professors and students cried out that the U.S. should abandon Viet Nam entirely, that Johnson was a warmonger. New York Herald Tribune Columnist Joseph Alsop complained about Lyndon...
Nonetheless, Ky's first ten days succeeded in their announced purpose to "shake and shock the country out of its lethargy." Where earlier governments tried to rule by consensus, Buddhist Ky is applying casuistry and a very un-Vietnamese puritanism. Impetuous and inexperienced as he is, Ky sounds far more believable in his demands for austerity than his predecessors did. Moreover, he has an air of no-nonsense realism that has been sadly lacking in South Viet Nam. To Saigon newsmen's howls of outrage over his newspaper shutdown, Ky replied with icy calm: "Communists...
...white flag bearing the outlines of two children's playing blocks and the words HEAD START flutters from the flagstaffs of city halls and schools in 2,350 U.S. communities this week, symbolizing the new U.S. consensus that preschool school for culturally backward children is the nation's most urgent educational need. Idealistic and hastily organized, Project Head Start will reach 560,000 children and their parents, involve some 500,000 volunteers, cost the Federal Government about $85 million...
...countries and, second, between Occident and Orient. For the Japanese, China and its people are neighbors with whom historical, ethnic and cultural ties have existed for more than ten centuries. Drawing on this historical background and her growing economic power, Japan may play a crucial role in negotiating some consensus on the balance of power in Southeast Asia...