Word: ceded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pulling in to defend the cities, the allies have been forced to cede large areas of the countryside to the Communists. Except for the largest population centers, for example, the rich Delta is now almost entirely in Viet Cong hands. There is not a Delta road safe to drive on, by day or night. Massive quantities of supplies are moving through the Delta for the enemy buildup around Saigon, and U.S. reconnaissance planes now sight piles of enemy artillery shells flagrantly stacked out in the open. But people and goods cannot move in the Delta; fish rot where they have...
...Today's authoritarian regime must cede its place to free political life," he told the foreign correspondents he had summoned. "The country will be exposed to dangers that will undermine and may even destroy everything if freedom is not quickly restored." The junta, he said, "underestimates the Greek people, and especially the youth, if they imagine that it is possible to intimidate them with arrests and sentences." Thus, unintimidated but clearly courting arrest, Kanellopoulos openly challenged the authority of the junta led by Colonel George Papadopoulos...
...Aqaba. His price: "acceptable" Israeli compensation to the 1.3 million Palestine refugees, plus a token "border adjustment" that would return a small sliver of Israeli desert to Arab sovereignty. The border adjustment is a question of repairing Arab honor and is relatively unimportant?though Israel may be reluctant to cede even a splinter of its land. The real key to an eventual political accommodation?after the present tensions abate?lies in finding a solution to the refugee problem...
...Zero Treks. The war took a heavy toll. Finland lost 115,000 men (nearly 3% of its population), also had to pay Russia huge reparations and cede part of its land. The losses taught Finland a lesson. President Urho Kekkonen, now serving his eleventh year in that post, realized that his country must retain the favor of its Soviet neighbor. While this has not meant alliance with the Soviets, it has led to a neutrality that slightly favors them. Kekkonen keeps up his ties with the Russians; few men can boast of having established personal relationships with Stalin, Khrushchev, Kosygin...
...Jonathan Swift. But the humorists who dwell on death and disaster today lean too often toward the narcissistic, reflecting images of themselves as helpless heroes in a world they can neither take nor leave. Their less lugubrious colleagues, on the other hand, have been all too willing to cede the comic to the journalists and to allow the commercial to override the classic. In the end, they have left a society almost without true humorists, making it vulnerable and vain, like a great man without a sense of humor...