Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Signed in 1964 but promptly consigned to limbo by the Senate, the U.S.Soviet consular treaty last week finally won approval. After voting down six attempts to weaken or destroy it, the Senate ratified the treaty 66 to 28, three votes more than the required two-thirds majority...
...woods League favors a more realistic 43,234-acre site (with 15,471 acres coming from state parks), which would cost $56 million. Both plans would put hundreds of lumbermen out of work but would ultimately create more jobs-chiefly in the park service-than they would destroy...
...long as the United States continues to cultivate Premier Ky's advice on military and pacification policy. More important, the United States should openly demonstrate to Hanoi that it emphatically does not insist on a pro-Western government in the South for the future and does not wish to destroy the North in the name of a vague anti-Red crusade...
Freedom to Destroy. The Bolsheviks at first tried to provide a façade of popular approval for their takeover. Certain that they would triumph, they permitted Kerensky's elections for a Constituent Assembly to be held. To their chagrin, they got only 175 seats out of 707. The delegates* had met for only 17 hours when Lenin ordered his soldiers to disband the Assembly forever. What Kerensky and the provisional governments' other well-meaning democrats had accomplished in eight months was little more than to provide Lenin with sufficient freedom to destroy them. Kerensky himself went into...
...Murphy, director of Boston's Rescue Inc., a nonsectarian church organization that tries to head off suicides through counseling and persuasion, believes that there may even be an "installment plan of suicide." Many people, he says, become so distraught that they drive recklessly in a subconscious effort to destroy themselves-without ever knowing consciously what they are doing. "For them," says Father Murphy, "each accident, whether serious or extremely minor, is a partial suicide...