Word: america
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President also made it absolutely clear that the restrictions on chemical weapons did not include CS gas-a stronger version of tear gas-or defoliants that are being used in Viet Nam. But the proscribing of germ warfare and the restated strictures on chemical warfare provide concrete evidence of America's strong desire to slow down the arms race. Together with the joint signing of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty by the U.S. and the Soviets (see THE WORLD), Nixon's announcement should add impetus to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks now going on in Helsinki...
...Night, he added, "won the Pulitzer Prize, and it should not be restricted." Nevertheless, the shelves will continue to ban some fiction, especially the overly sexy kind. "We are not a circulation library," says Deputy Director Henry Loomis. "We are in the business of supplying books which portray America in a fair and balanced way. Anyone who objects to this is probably in the wrong line of work...
Just what is the USIA's line of work? It is frankly an American propaganda agency, and accentuating the positive is its legitimate goal. The question is how much of the positive can be poured on without undermining the agency's own credibility. The Voice of America has always been most effective when it offered straight news, including U.S. criticism of the U.S. As Edward R. Murrow, most distinguished of USIA directors, once said: "You must tell the bad with the good. We cannot be effective in telling the American story abroad if we tell it only...
Rives' posture has been cool and correct. Says one of Sihanouk's French advisers: "America has finally learned to deal with Cambodia with politesse and patience." Not that there is all that much to do. The entire nonofficial U.S. community in Cambodia consists of three women who are married to Cambodian husbands and Joe Foggy, a Negro fighter who has been coaching Cambodian boxers for several years. One of Rives' chief tasks has been negotiating a Cambodian claim for $12 million in damages to rubber trees caused by U.S. planes bombing too close to the Cambodian-Vietnamese...
Raff grew up in the southern Italian village of Melito Irpino, one of those timeless, unchanging communities that hide behind hills all over Europe. Even there, he was something of an outsider: a U.S. citizen by virtue of his father's naturalization years before in America. The 30-year disparity in his parents' ages did not contribute to a settled home life. Papa Minichiello, a stern disciplinarian, confined his son at home nights. The one time Raff defied this parental decree he was soundly beaten...