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...missile crisis, which brought the world to the verge of nuclear war. Khrushchev proclaimed the confrontation a triumph because it ended in an assurance from Kennedy that the U.S. would not attempt to invade Cuba again, but he was forced to admit that many people thought he had "turned coward and backed down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Man Between Two Eras | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...bloody week was the fact that the militants on both sides, who hold the whip hand, were growing in strength while moderates stood helplessly by. As Ivan Cooper, the only Protestant M.P. among the Ulster Parliament's Catholic opposition, says: "In this country, moderate is spelled coward. We have too much religion and not enough Christianity." Ulster's problem is also that it has all too many extremists, sometimes spelled bigots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Northern Ireland: Violent Jubilee | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

...COURT-MARTIAL OF LT. CALLEY by Richard Hammer. 398 pages. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Aye for an Eye | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

GETTING BACK TOGETHER by Robert Houriet. 412 pages. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Alternative Experience | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

Last week it was Thieu's turn. In a Saigon press conference, he called Big Minh "a coward and a liar" and blamed him for the murders, quoting him as saying at the time of the coup that "the easiest way is to assassinate Diem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The Diem Document | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

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