Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dilemma. The Pan-African conference pointed up Nasser's curious dilemma today. Only 43, still the idol of Arab masses wherever he goes, he is a man with his ambitions unsated, a fading hero in search of a solid triumph. At home, his record is at best mixed. The Aswan Dam is under construction; Egypt's staple product, cotton, was bought up on world markets in record quantities last year. Russia has provided $170 million for industrial development, as well as $377 million for the dam (v. the U.S.'s $120 million). The Suez Canal is doing...
...faced with a familiar dilemma. The very foundation of U.S. existence had been an anti-colonialism etched in history by the Founding Fathers, confirmed by fiery speaker after fiery speaker in every Congress since...
...insensitive to those pressures that affect politicians in every age and every country. There has been a steady slide of the major French parties toward opposition, chiefly because of increasing discontent with De Gaulle's domestic austerity. Only the hope that he can solve the Algerian dilemma has protected him. In Algeria itself, he has been influenced by the growing evidence that the Moslems once thought riveted to France can no longer be counted on. are shifting their loyalties to the F.L.N. Last December's Moslem uprisings shook...
Confronted with this dilemma, President Kennedy has suggested that supporters of the cardinals' position introduce a separate bill embodying their demands, while leaving aid to public schools unmolested. The bishops and cardinals have flatly rejected this proposal...
...constantly put in the position of having to support a no-good general in Laos or a 1920's militarist like Chiang Kai-Shek," a noted historian claimed yesterday, describing the dilemma of U.S. policy toward shaky strong-man governments in the Far East...