Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STRANGLERS, by George Bruce. The original "thugs" were Indian marauders who strangled travelers and robbed them. It was not until the 1830s, when their victims were numbered in the tens of thousands, that a crusading British officer finally wiped them out. A horrifying, little-known facet of Empire...
Nixon wisely chose to begin his tour in Brussels, headquarters of NATO and the Common Market, hence the symbolic capital of European unity. To start in London would have given the impression that the President favors the British; to start in Paris, that he is trying too hard to woo De Gaulle...
...London, Nixon will spend virtually an entire day with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, probably with time out for tea with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. One particular area of concern to Wilson is U.S. cooperation in advancing Britain's nuclear technology. The British would like to fit multiple-target nuclear warheads to their Polaris missiles, as the U.S. has already done with some of its intercontinental missiles. Since the U.S. is increasingly sensitive to French charges of favoring Britain with nuclear know-how that it denies to others, the British regard the warhead question as a key indicator...
Brittany and Cornwall. Inevitably, conservationists felt compelled to compare the effect of the Santa Barbara slick with the 100,000 tons spilled into the English Channel in 1967 by the wreck of the tanker Torrey Canyon. In Cornwall, the British government dumped 1,000,000 gallons of detergents and chemicals on the beaches and into the ocean. The sands and rocks now are without a trace of tar, but the sea is practically devoid of plankton, which nourishes such underwater creatures as limpets and winkles. By contrast, when the slick floated to the coast of Brittany, the French insisted that...
President's Signal. Faced with the Communist threat, the Western Allies firmly reminded the Soviet Union that they hold the Russians responsible for maintaining free access to West Berlin. After talks in Bonn with Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson jetted to West Berlin for a seven-hour visit. "We shall continue -you can count on this-to do all that is in our power to ensure that your freedom is preserved," he said on television. Berliners were pleased and somewhat reassured. But they were even more pleased by the prospect of next week's visit...