Word: doned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...along to associate himself with the mission. Now, as both astronauts stood stiffly at attention near the flag, Nixon told them: "This certainly has to be the most historic phone call ever made. . . . All the people on this earth are truly one in their pride of what you have done, and one in their prayers that you will return safely...
...deny the necessity of an active defense, but they would scale down the massive search-and-destroy missions that have dominated U.S. strategy. Said one Government official: "Where we used to have division-sized sweeps, we now want to see whether the job can't be done by 25-man patrols. Where we now send out 25-man patrols, we want to see whether a five-man patrol won't do. And we must keep in mind that we are no longer out for military victory." The new approach also calls for increased Vietnamization...
Playing the Snake. Liberal Democrats argued that unless they tied the surtax, which Nixon wants badly, to reform, which he does not want quite so badly, reform would remain what it has been for years: something to be done tomorrow. Though the Administration did, in fact, attach a few reforms of its own to the surtax bill as a sweetener, it did not go nearly far enough to satisfy the liberals. While Nixon pledged himself to submit a more comprehensive tax-reform package to Congress this year, he has been less than specific about its contents-perhaps partly because...
...director and chief architect of his celebrated Southern strategy, has created the impression that he is trying to placate the white South. He is credited with the recent decision to ease school-desegregation guidelines. He was responsible for drafting the Administration's voting rights bill, which would have done away with the current law in favor of a much weaker measure - and was unceremoniously rejected by the House Judiciary Committee last week. On Capitol Hill, Mitchell has earned a reputation for being brusque and undiplomatic...
...damage was already done. An estimated 2,000 soldiers and civilians, mostly Hondurans, were reported dead. Honduran bombs damaged El Salvador's biggest oil refinery. The future effectiveness of the Central American Common Market, which has brought a surprising amount of industrialization to the region of the combatants in the past nine years, was imperiled, and the area's main lifeline, the Inter-American Highway, was closed down by the fighting. In the wake of death and damage, a legacy of bitterness was created that might well bedevil the two neighbors for years...