Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hoped to muster enough supporters to block the admission of Red China to the United Nations by a simple majority when that perennial issue came up for a vote last week. But when the General Assembly's big new indicator board flashed the final results, the U.S. had to settle for a tie-47 nations for seating Red China, 47 against, and 20 abstentions...
...Administration has thus served notice on U.S. business that it intends to block price increases by every means at its disposal, using the Viet Nam fighting, when necessary, to invoke restraint. If anyone did not get the message the first time, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler repeated it in a tough Chicago speech. The Government is determined, he said, to "blow the whistle impartially on labor and business" for any moves "that threaten economic stability and expansion." Businessmen began to speculate what industry would next suffer the leverage of the Government's stockpile, which includes 77 items ranging from asbestos...
...French view of the Vietnam war isn't strictly anti-American. They just merely think we're stuck with a bad policy that is a stumbling block to the settlement of other international issues. Although some analysts admit that recent American military sucesses may stave off defeat and produce a stalemate, the majority feel that the Viet-cong is going to win. After their own decade of disastrous fighting in Southeast Asia, such pessimism from the French is understandable. And after seeing American strategists in Paris, copying French battle reports, debriefing vetran officers, and reimplementing French battle plans, most French...
Although he had volunteer workers including 40 or 50 relatives), McGovern couldn't depend on a block-by-block, apartment - by - apartment network of supporters. As a result, many important tasks went undone. "We should have had a card file with the name of every voter that had been contracted," he believes. "We should have known his position and been able to watch at the polls. If he didn't vote, we could have called...
...then suddenly, Harvard's offense began to resemble to pre-season press notices. Tom Choquette and Leo got Harvard first down; three plays later the Crimson was confronted with a third and ten situation. Leo took a pitchout from McCluskey and with the ad of a fine block by Choquette rambled 25 yards to Elis...