Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dependent?government in Saigon requested U.S. assistance and continues to do so. The U.S. originally entered on a very small scale and only after fighting had already started. South Viet Nam was under very real attack from within and without. These circum stances hardly duplicate those in Czechoslovakia, quite apart from the fact that U.S. and Russian aims in the world are fundamentally and philosophically different. To establish a real parallel with Soviet behavior, one would have to imagine France's being taken over through a Communist coup and renouncing all its military and economic alliances, prompting a concerted move...
...Industrialization and legislative reapportionment have given new strength to the cities and suburbs. The Republican Party is again a potent force; but it wears dramatically contrasting faces in different states, and has lost most of the Negro support that once formed its core. The Democrats meanwhile are being pulled apart by the opposing forces of reaction and moderation...
...nations should be consolidating their resources and widening their markets. Three nations in East Africa have moved in this di rection by founding a nascent common market, and elsewhere there are the beginnings of cooperation in handling currency and passports. But if Africa's most populous nation can fall apart, the prospects for successful regionalism look dim indeed...
...little choice. His minority extremists, composed largely of student Red Guards and egged on by Mrs. Mao, Chiang Ching, were losing out in bloody battles with more conservative workers and peasants who are backed by most of the army. To keep China from falling apart entirely, Mao apparently moved over to the majority side...
Their campuses are less than a mile apart, but Dublin's two major universities have long been separated by a bitter heritage of hate and suspicion. Trinity College (enrollment: 3,500) is Protestant, England-oriented, aristocratic. University College (7,325) is Roman Catholic, nationalist, middle class. Relations between the two are so frosty that, when the Irish government recently offered them joint use of a veterinary school, the colleges balked at sharing the same faculty and instead created overlapping, independent staffs. Now, however, Ireland's Ministry of Education has taken a major step toward ending the rivalry. Under...