Word: capitulationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon nevertheless restates his confidence in the eventual success of Vietnamization. He notes that the policy was largely forced by U.S. public opinion and was "the only policy available once we had rejected the status quo, escalation and capitulation." Unlike his foreign policy report of last year, Nixon's...
Brown blamed the inflation on union demands for higher wages and said that labor unions have become so powerful that "bargaining for higher wages is a matter of capitulation on the employers' part."
Enraged Amazons. "The Prisoner of Sex," out this week, features more four-letter words than Harper's has printed in all its 121-year history. Mailer's 47,000-word exercise in sexual dialectic will probably blow brains not only among Lib ladies but a sizable segment of...
THE SST. The Senate voted this month to deny the President any more funds to develop a supersonic transport, while the House had authorized the $290 million that the President had requested. A House-Senate conference committee tried to compromise the issue by granting $210 million for the plane. The...
Alien Provisions. Whether the E.T.U.'s capitulation proves to be a lasting victory for Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath depends on whether or not the Court of Inquiry rules in favor of the Electricity Council, which had offered the workers only $4.80 more a week. Nonetheless, Heath's...