Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this was insufficient answer to the Communist tactic of nibbling with conventional arms at the free world's boundaries. Said Ridgway: "In view of the free world's appreciable manpower superiority over the Communist bloc ... it is my view that the free world has ample resources to confront the Soviet bloc enemy in whatever form of aggression the Soviets choose...
...They confront some appalling facts. Most of the human race cannot read or write. Each year, 300 million suffer from malaria. The world's population is increasing by 100,000 a day, but of its 900 million children, two-thirds are underfed...
...promise of secrecy if they want it; the person under investigation does not necessarily know who said what about him. In 1951 the Supreme Court split 4 to 4 when asked to rule that the Government could not dismiss an employee for security reasons unless it allowed him to confront the persons who had given information about him on which the Government based its decision. This spring the issue again reached the highest court (TIME, May 2), in the case of Yale's Professor of Medicine John Punnett Peters, who was discharged as a part-time consultant...
...Peters' lawyer, Thurman Arnold, built his arguments on the Fifth Amendment. He said that since Dr. Peters could not confront his informers, he had been denied the right to "due process of law" guaranteed in the Fifth Amendment. The Government answered that it has a need and a right to protect its informants; if it did not do so, the whole security system would break down. It also contended that its firing procedures are administrative acts, not judicial proceedings with legal penalties, and therefore not subject to the due process clause...
...governments of France, the United Kingdom and the U.S. believe that the time has now come for a new effort to resolve the great problems which confront us. We, therefore, invite the Soviet government to join with us in an effort to remove sources of conflict between us ... We think it would be fruitful to begin with a meeting of the heads of government...