Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lives and efforts, a conflict that has made us ill as a people." There will be no peace, he predicted, so long as the Administration insists on perpetuating the present government in Saigon or that government refuses to compromise on a postwar coalition. "Why should General Thieu control the destiny of America or dictate the future of young American lives?" Kennedy asked...
...launched amidst extraordinary secrecy early this month, Royal Laotian troops mounted a two-pronged attack against the Plain of Jars in the northeast, and against Communist units guarding the Ho Chi Minh Trail in central Laos. Last week, for the first time in five years, government forces were in control of part of the broad Plain of Jars, so called because of the many funereal jars on the area's tombs. Preceding the offensive was an intensive rain of bombs from Thai-based U.S. planes, which have turned the whole region into a "free-fire zone," where anything that...
...neutralist-royalist coalition. In 1964, the Communists drove the neutralists from the Plain of Jars and set about creating their own "neutralist" wing from a nucleus of defectors. The Pathet Lao figure that a new coalition will be formed once peace comes to Viet Nam, and they hope to control at least half the Cabinet posts by placing their "neutralists" in the government. Aware of the Communists' intentions, Souvanna Phouma confirmed that the offensive, at least on the Plain of Jars, was more political than military...
...Israeli-occupied territories. Other debates certain to engage the Assembly's time and temper include the protection of civil rights for Northern Ireland's Catholic minority and restrictions on chemical and germ warfare. There is every prospect that the U.N. will formally decide to enter the pollution-control field by setting up the first worldwide governmental conference on the protection of the environment, to be held in 1972. Almost certainly, given the Afro-Asian majority in the Assembly, strong resolutions will be passed during the sessions condemning the white-supremacist regimes in Rhodesia, Angola and Mozambique...
...Osborn was among the earliest campaigners against wanton killing of animals, pollution and the many ways that man has of hurting his environment, and in two highly popular books, Our Plundered Planet (1948) and The Limits of the Earth (1953), he examined the need for swift, strict environmental control. "Are we not," he once asked, "running such a busy race for food, space and employment for even greater numbers that we are forgetting the purpose of it all-a better living for human beings...