Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until recently, the war in Viet Nam was a dormant issue in the 1968 presidential election campaign-compared with law and order, the cities, and even inflation. The chance of a bombing pause brought it back into sudden political prominence. Both Nixon and Humphrey strategists agree that a break in the war could help Humphrey, the Administration's defender, by as much as two percentage points in the popular vote on Election Day. With such big, key states as New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan now rated as tossups, a bombing halt could conceivably give Humphrey a significant though probably...
...First "tea break" session held outside formal conference room, affording negotiators opportunity to talk without inhibitions imposed by agenda. Hanoi announces that Politburo Member Le Due Tho is flying to Paris to serve as "adviser"-obviously an influential...
...managed to convey the impression, if not establish as fact, that he was indeed making progress. He could still hope for a lucky break-sudden agreement at the Paris peace talks, for instance, or a spicy Republican scandal. In Maryland, reporters from at least half a dozen major publications were delving into Spiro Agnew's financial affairs, looking for evidence to buttress old speculation that Agnew was implicated in conflict-of-interest situations while a Baltimore county official. Nothing new or sensational was turned up by week's end, but the fact that there was any inquiry...
...fragile and their massed populations are interdependent. Yet they also possess a stubborn, stunning and almost blind will to endure. New York did not dissolve in chaos last week. It will probably not fall apart this week or next, or the week after that. With luck, it will never break down entirely. Nonetheless, a nation that prides itself on pragmatism and problem-solving can afford only at its peril to ignore the immense-and immensely complex-challenge of making its cities habitable, enjoyable and governable. Mumford told a Senate committee last year, "Unless human needs and human interactions and human...
...impacted, intransigent white bureaucracy. In practice, however, it met a multitude of small problems and one gigantic roadblock: the United Federation of Teachers, the nation's largest union local (55,000 members). After years of struggling for power, the union felt endangered. Not only would decentralization break up the school system, many teachers reasoned, it would also break up the union, which would have to negotiate with 33 local school boards. To many teachers and indeed to many members of other unions, the Negroes' demand for community control-and the city's limited compliance-was nothing less...