Word: buffer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stop-and-frisk law" that would allow police to search suspicious persons. Then, too, there was Viet Nam. Though Cavanagh vaguely supported the Johnson Administration's policies, an image of the dove fluttered above him after he advocated a cease-fire and the creation of a buffer state between North and South. Williams, also generally supporting the President's policy, more firmly urged "a firm military defense and an imaginative peace effort...
When the 1954 Geneva Conference divided Viet Nam in two, it established a demilitarized buffer zone between the Communist North and anti-Communist South. The zone is six miles wide. It roughly follows the 17th parallel from the mountainous Laotian border in the west through thickly jungled foothills to the fertile paddies along the coast. For twelve years, it was the quietest place in all of Viet...
Sudden Surprise. Almost since the revolution, Costa e Silva has been content to act as the buffer between two bitterly opposed government factions-the so-called "soft-liners," including Castello Branco, who want to operate within a constitutional framework, and the hard liners who demand more aggressive "revolutionary government." Finally, in a showdown last October, the hard liners forced Castello Branco to abolish Brazil's 13 political parties, pave the way for a government party called ARENA, and order indirect presidential elections this fall by Congress rather than by direct popular elections. Since ARENA controls 284 of Congress...
...Fairbank nor Columbia Political Scientist A. Doak Barnett would accept the Fulbright line that the war in Viet Nam would lead to full-scale hostilities with China, with the proviso-which the Administration has repeatedly endorsed-that the U.S. does not intend to destroy what the Chinese consider a buffer regime in North Viet Nam. Both, however, cautioned against bombing Hanoi or Haiphong. Indeed, Administration experts whose policies embody the same reservations advanced by Fairbank and Barnett, expressed mystification last week at Fulbright's recent assertion that "certain China experts in our Government think the Chinese leaders themselves expect...
...blamed the blizzard on an aberration in the jet stream, the 60-200 knot current that blows from west to east at a height of 30,000 to 40,000 ft. Normally, during the winter, the stream heads out to sea around the latitude of Philadelphia, serves as a buffer between arctic cold and warm, moist southern air. This year, as if answering an airlines commercial, the stream headed on down to Jacksonville before departing the U.S., and allowed the arctic air to freeze the moisture-laden southern front on its way north. The result was already being called...