Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have 3,000 Nigerian soldiers encircled at Owerri but lack strength to wipe out the pocket and push south toward the oil town of Port Harcourt. Last week, in an offensive obviously timed for Wilson's visit, Nigerians launched a general attack in the north that carried them closer to Biafra's lone airstrip at Uli. Unless it is totally successful and quickly ends the war, the humane solution would be a truce...
...playing off one side against the other. In Laos, the Russians have managed to prevent the Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas from falling under Chinese influence. In North Korea, the Soviets capitalized on Peking's insults of the regime of Premier Kim II Sung to nudge the country closer to Moscow's position...
...efforts, the Russian influence is increasing. The Soviets have broadened their technical assistance and trade programs, have announced plans to erect a $120 million steel mill and, if Gowon is agreeable, intend to expand their embassy staff and open consulates in other Nigerian towns to put them in closer contact with labor and student groups. Meanwhile, Nigeria's British backers have been acutely embarrassed by Nigerian air attacks on undefended Biafran towns and hospitals. Britons who have protested bombing of civilians in Viet Nam now find their own nation indirectly supporting similar action in Biafra. The uproar has touched...
...closer into Boston the courses are, the more expensive and crowded they get. Unfortunately, the best of the local courses--Woodlawn in Newton, Nashawtuck in Concord, the Lexington Golf Club, the Winchester Country Club, and the Belmont Country Club, which is just recovering from having a highway built across its back nine--are all private clubs...
...accurate description of why President Pusey wants ROTC is his statement that "it's terribly important for the United States of America that college people go into the military." As a conscientious objector, I disagree on the importance of the military, but I realize the president's view is closer to the majority than mine. However, I think it's disturbing that President Pusey is beginning to preserve "the University's freedom from outside interference or control" ("Information About Harvard") by equating the interests of Harvard with those of the government. The president of Harvard would do better by trying...