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Word: battleground (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Kennedy reckoned it, the cost of living in cold war had never been higher: in all, it added up to $1.9 billion in new requests, on top of the 1962 federal budget-with the glum promise of billions more to come in the next ten years. "The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe-Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East*-the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history . . . The adversaries of freedom did not create the revolution, nor did they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cost of Living | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

Soviet Delay. Laos had become another Viet Nam, a battleground where diplomatic defeat seemed better than the risk of military forces. To reporters the President seemed casual about the Soviet delay in replying to Britain's request for a ceasefire. "I'm hopeful that we're going to get an answer," he said. At week's end Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn Thompson sought out Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to express U.S. "concern" over the silence. But the Russians could not lose: a neutralized Laos clearly meant major Communist participation in that nation's government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: The More Things Change . . . | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...could force Kennedy to back down, the President's authority and prestige, his capacity to lead the U.S. and the free world, would be gravely damaged. Kennedy elected to meet the attack, and to meet it on the question of Laos-even though that was his most precarious battleground. In meeting that test, the President avoided any tone of belligerence, offered to settle for minimal terms. He called for a neutral rather than a pro-Western Laos, a cease-fire rather than a rollback of the Pathet Lao; he was even willing to let Communist China take part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Time of Testing | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...were all agreed that chaotic, mountainous little Laos was the last place in the world to fight a war-and they were probably right. "It would be like fighting the French and Indian War all over again," said one military man. But why was Laos the new Southeast Asian battleground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Three-Front War | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

...prospects dismaying. With no seaport, jet airfields or railroad, with only 500 miles of all-weather roads (the main road between Vientiane and the outside world runs along the Mekong, is under water six months of the year), backward Laos is an ideal buffer zone but a terrible battleground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Partially False Alarm | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

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