Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school, where dilapidated urinals were plainly in view, Centrist Leader Jacques Duhamel drew cheers by asking: "Wouldn't it be better to spend money on schools rather than on the illusionary force de frappe?" In an ironical turnabout, the Communists attacked the Gaullists for their no-holds-barred attempt to win an all-out majority in the National Assembly. "Unlike the Gaullist party," chided Party Chairman Waldeck Rochet, "the Communists do not want power alone, but only to have their rightful place in a government of democratic parties...
...Corson, the pacification strategy of the Marines was correct, and victory in Viet Nam is being thwarted by the Army's blind reliance on hardware and explosives. Corson's chosen weapons are the type of security his tiny teams afforded, coupled with social justice and an attempt to free the peasant from both Saigon's tyranny and Viet Cong terror. "I don't want to see wars of national liberation become viable, exportable commodities," says Corson, who views the escalation from about 650 U.S. advisers in 1959 to today's 534,000 troops...
...Defense, which includes the war in Viet Nam, is costing the U.S. about $75 billion a year-of which $39 billion goes directly to the U.S. corporations and institutions that are the Government's prime suppliers. As of last week, a Senate subcommittee was holding hearings in an attempt to find out whether there is any profiteering. As an aid to the subcommittee, the Defense Department listed the latest ranking of the top 100 companies and institutions that do business with...
Nguyen Cao Ky is more likely to attempt a coup than to resign, although neither course seems very likely at the moment. He probably believes that time is his best ally. He wants to change his image, move away from the Americans, and mold a thoroughly nationalist look designed to appeal to the masses and the younger generation; in short, to transform the flashy, daredevil flyboy into a sort of Uncle Nguyen-an antiCommunist, anti-Western and South Vietnamese patriot...
...happier when they lose. He backs up these provocative assertions with references from the works of authorities on human behavior. One is the psychoanalytical historian Norman O. Brown (Life Against Death), who argues that making money with money simply for money's sake is an infantile and perverse attempt to achieve immortality. But, Smith/Goodman says, Brown fails to account for the fun that can be had in mating dollars with other kinds of paper for "effortless" profit. For the happy few with surplus chips and the nerves to separate reality from sublimated desires and anxieties, investing...