Word: basely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...League members base their major argument against the SST on its noise, their success may well depend on another argument--economics...
...feel like an ant on a dart board," says a young U.S. Marine at Gio Linh, the American artillery base carved out of the top of a hill overlooking North Viet Nam (see color opposite). The camp's main gate bids a black-humor welcome to "the Alamo of Viet Nam." Like neighboring Con Thien to the west, Gio Linh is the merest outstretched fingertip of the U.S. presence in Viet Nam, an isolated and vulnerable outpost less than two miles from the Demilitarized Zone. It lies in a no man's land that has become the bitterest...
...grim humor with which the Marines accept their defensive watch. Atop Major Froncek's bunker stands a six-foot-high handmade catapult, which he smilingly explains is "a last-ditch weapon in case we are overrun." Not far away stands a siren that is no joke. Should the base ever be overrun, it will scream a signal to everyone to burrow deep down inside their bunkers. Then all the other U.S. artillery bases within range will wheel their guns around to fire on Gio Linh itself in an attempt to blast the North Vietnamese right off the backs...
...same time, he wants Canada's growing welfare state to be administered in a more businesslike way. Like Pearson-and unlike Diefenbaker-Stanfield believes broadly in warmer relations with the U.S. and more foreign investment in Canada. With his accession, the Conservative Party's main power base will automatically shift from Diefenbaker's Western prairies to the Atlantic provinces. Stanfield will also pay more attention to Ontario and Quebec, Canada's two biggest provinces, which were long neglected under Diefenbaker...
...never before, public sentiment is drifting away from Pearson's brand of big-government spending. If Stanfield can hang on to Diefenbaker's strongholds in the West and win Ontario, a new election could well reduce the Liberals to a party significant only in its traditional power base, Quebec...