Word: counteractions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truce talks got under way at the presidential palace in Bamako, Mali, to settle the border war between Morocco and Algeria, a flock of vultures hovered overhead. As if to counteract such ominous signs, Malian witch doctors with grotesque ritual masks came from miles through the bush. There was plenty of work for them...
...across it like pistachio shells; Katherine Dunham firmly fixed a rhinestone in every navel within reach and made her debut as a Met choreographer nothing more than a tawdry reminder of her old Haitian dance suites. Uniformly brave performances and sensitive conducting by Georg Sold were not enough to counteract such problems, and Verdi's tragedy sank into the goo without a tear...
...real reason for Khrushchev's presence in East Berlin, of course, was not that he wanted to help Ulbricht blow out the candles, nor was it entirely a matter of trying to counteract the emotions stirred up by the Kennedy visit. Most of all, Khrushchev wanted to meet with his East European satellite chiefs to close ranks before the Chinese arrive in Moscow this week to confer on the worsening Sino-Soviet ideological split...
...broad and profound," which would construct a "new solidarity" within the College. The new President looked beyond the four undergraduate years. "If we can increase the intellectual ambition of college students," he said, "the whole face of our country will be changed. . . The object of a university is to counteract, rather than copy, the defects in the civilization...
Wells on Wheels. Spurred by the discovery of hidden Communist arms caches and reports of Red supply drops by parachute in the northeast, Premier Sarit Thanarat has begun a crash program to counteract Red influence in the area. Earmarking $300 million in development funds, he has already sent out two of a planned twelve mobile development units to drill fresh-water wells, bulldoze new roads, and dispense medical care. Under the guidance of Thailand's sharpest and most aggressive young civil servants, who once shunned the northeast as a kind of Siberia, schools are being built and electric generators...