Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faults. He wants to prove the very problematical thesis that big cities are governable, given enough cash and imagination. It is a bad time for such men because many whites feel that there have been too many concessions to blacks already?concessions that whites must pay for. The American middle feels it is a victim of excessively rapid change. Richard Nixon saw that last year. City politicians are not missing the point either...
...abiding American, in Nixon's phrase, is "fed up to here" with violence. Procaccino also knows that large segments of the working class and middle class are weary of idealistic reformers who somehow manage to cast the ordinary white man in the fall guy's role. Even politicians who are not racist?as Procaccino and Marchi are not?can capitalize on this sentiment. Candidates can be swept into office solely on its strength. Circumstances vary from region to region, but some of the same factors appear. Thus Detective Charles Stenvig finds himself the mayor of Minneapolis, and Sam Yorty...
Virtually Ungovernable. When the Communists took over in 1949, China could hardly have been in worse condition. It was in the midst of a great historic drama-and the U.S. watched it with deep concern, for China has always held a unique place in the American imagination. After two millenniums of maintaining an exquisitely sophisticated culture in relative isolation from the world, China was invaded by the West-by its traders, missionaries, soldiers and technicians. First under Sun Yatsen, whose revolution overthrew the Manchu empire, then under Chiang Kaishek, new leaders struggled to rescue the Chinese spirit from repeated foreign...
...President Liu Shao-chi, set out to repair the damage. They were on the way to succeeding when Mao began stirring again. "Those in China now under the age of 20 have never fought a war and have never seen an imperialist or known capitalism in power," he told American Author Edgar Snow in 1965. He feared that the young, without the rigors of revolution to test them as he had been tested, were getting soft. The ideological split with the Soviet Union was by now forbiddingly wide, and Mao feared that China would eventually follow the Soviet example...
What about those elections scheduled for next May? "This is a revolutionary government," Ovando shrugged at a press conference, "and we cannot yet speak about elections." Whatever its politics, Bolivia has become the ninth Latin American country to come under military rule, thus joining a growing club whose members now control more than half of Latin America's 260 million people...