Word: armament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heikki Lampela is a strikingly handsome 25-year-old Finn with a magnificent square jaw and a massive smile that takes up his whole face. It branches out from his mouth in squared-off semi-circles, and it seems to light him up. Lampela, like most Moral Re-Armament people, is nearly always smiling. But after the Sing-Out show in Sanders Theatre he was not smiling at all. And he had reasons...
...first blow to this rosy picture of China occurred when China succeeded in the explosion of a nuclear bomb. In the eyes of the Japanese, the only people who have had the experience of being attacked by a nuclear bomb, the Chinese nuclear armament was real military threat. It was not a step towards total and complete disarmament as the Chinese claim...
...criminals are induced to testify, to plead guilty, to surrender themselves, or to tip off the police, there is a degree of accommodation between the police and the ciiminals--tacit or explicit understandings analogous to what in military affairs would be called the limitation of war, the control of armament, and spheres of influence...
...American defense" and to urge an Anglo-American pact. The Harvard Student Union emphatically opposed involvement, as did the Harvard Committee Against Military Intervention. Conant's frequent public speeches helped polarize the issue. On a speaking tour of the South in October he called for immediate and complete American armament; in November he said that no limit should be put on our aid to the Allies; by May, on a national hookup, he urged immediate entry into...
...Walter Ulbricht that joint plans be drafted for the formation of a German confederation, no longer insisting on free all-German elections or the tearing down of the Communist Wall as preconditions to the talks. Ulbricht is taken aback, but accepts when Erhard promises to renounce nuclear armament and maintain East Germany's socialist economy. Ulbricht wins congratulations from Pope Paul VI but is overthrown by a hard-lining Communist clique when public opinion in East Germany runs rampantly in advance of the formal negotiations and forces him to order the Wall torn down. After a countercoup, negotiations resume...