Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the Communists of Eastern Europe, who in the past were content to condone China's aberrations in order to gain more leverage from the Sino-So viet split, are now roundly denouncing the Red Chinese as "insane." Hungarian Communist Boss Janos Kadar calls the events in China a "national tragedy." East Germany has accused the Red Chinese of "encouraging the cult of Mao to boundless excesses...
...past decade, while the winds of change whipped through the rest of Africa, the only thing blowing in French Somaliland was sand. An arid enclave of 72,000 African tribesmen, 8,000 Arabs and 600,000 goats, it voted in 1958 to remain a colony of France, apparently content with the several mil lion dollars a year that the French spend to help support it. Or so it seemed un til last month, when Charles de Gaulle passed through on the first leg of his round-the-world tour. Unexpectedly, he was greeted by riots and demonstrations whose message...
...supposed craving for atomic weapons. Although the MLF would give the Germans no more than a veto on the use of certain ship-borne missiles, the Soviets suspect that this might lead to more extensive German control in the future. They do not believe that Bonn will be content with such veto-power...
...Pakistanis are content to keep everyone guessing about their arrangements with Peking. They say that India has negotiated with Eastern Europe for 600 tanks, 400 heavy guns, 200 tank transporters, and elsewhere for 200 missile-firing supersonic aircraft and submarines, helicopters and antiaircraft missiles. Furthermore, Pakistan has accused India of using its Canadian-built reactor to build an A-bomb-a charge that India vehemently denies...
That sort of headline hugging makes it tough on the average starlet who is eager enough for the spotlight but doesn't care to go quite that far to attract it. And so Tanya Lopert, girl starlet and daughter of a United Artists vice president, had to be content with something less spectacular but considerably more ladylike. With Daddy in tow, Tanya made her big entrance at a party at the Palazzo Ca' Rezzonico, dressed in a spangled magenta mini-gown slit to the thigh...