Nation: THE WORLD IN OUR LIVING ROOM

In simple, eloquent language, Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week explained on television why Americans are fighting and dying in Asia for the third time in a generation. Though Rusk's remarks had been taped nearly a month earlier, they effectively rebutted Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin's charge that the U.S. is supporting the "oppressors" in Viet Nam.

We have no chance of living at -" peace, or living in prosperity, or getting on with our affairs here at home, if in other parts of the world aggressors are moving from one aggression to the other. The rest of the world is...

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