Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...wear better over the long run, wanted five or more. The compromise, settled on last week by Nixon and Kennedy negotiators: four one-hour shows, spread out between Sept. 25 and Oct. 21. They will not be formal debates, but rather press conferences, with both men replying to each question.* The early rounds provided opportunities for measuring off the candidates as tacticians. Nixon kept off the stage as much as possible during the short session of Congress, did his work behind the scenes. Instead of trying to beat the Democrats at their own welfare-legislation game, he showed his tactical...
...justified by ex-President Harry Truman on the ground that "it was my responsibility to force the Japanese warlords to come to terms as quickly as possible with the minimum loss of lives." Most U.S. military men, bent on unconditional surrender, backed him up. Last week the old question got a new airing in the wake of a report by Cowles newspaper Correspondents Fletcher Knebel and Charles Bailey, who were permitted to read still-secret State Department records of the Potsdam Conference while preparing a book about the Abomb. Their key points...
...Logical Question. Flushed with his Kasai victory, Lumumba once more rounded on his favorite whipping boy: the U.N. Early in the week, he and his government had warmly expressed gratification at Dag Hammarskjold's message that the Belgians had promised to remove all their combat troops from the Congo "within, at the most, eight days." Now, in an about-face so sudden that no one knew whether it was a decision of the moment or one he might abide by for 48 hours, Lumumba demanded that U.N. troops leave the Congo as soon as the last Belgian...
...Back in Leopoldville. the U.N.'s Ralph Bunche fired off an angry protest to the Congolese government. Assuring Bunche of his "deep and .sincere personal regrets," the Congo's able young Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko concluded his reply: "But what can I do?" It was a fair question. What, indeed, could anyone do to transform Patrice Lumumba's Congo into a reasonable facsimile of a civilized state...
...paper money in circulation and a 22% jump in retail prices. By driving 2,500,000 Chinese, mostly small shopkeepers and their families, out of In donesia's villages, he had involved the nation in a bitter feud with Red China. Then, too, there was the knotty question of Presidential Regulation No. 5, which prohibits public criticism of any Sukarno decree until the would-be critic obtains a license from the proper authorities. (So far there have been no applicants...