Word: east
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East and West-instead of Asia. As for Viet Nam, he advocated a "political settlement," adding, "Our interest runs only to avoiding the kinds of violence which can transcend national frontiers and threaten the wider peace...
...closed one's memory in the East Room and listened to the strains of the Army band, then looked around at the array of generals, Cabinet officers and dazzlingly beautiful women hearing the words from Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of the Army Stanley Resor, one would assume that the U.S. had won the Viet...
...Half a century before Lenin was born, omniscient Napoleon Bonaparte was concerned with Red revolutionism to the East. He turned his back on Britain, and valiantly drove his troops into a cruel Russian winter in a glorious effort to thwart the future threat of monolithic Communism...
...rule the Soviet Union, Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and President Nikolai Podgorny, flew into Warsaw last week for an emergency conference. Their troika partner, Aleksei Kosygin, cut short a state visit to Sweden to join them there for talks with party leaders from Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and East Germany. The Communist summit, the third of its kind in four months, was the Soviet response to the onrush of reform in Czechoslovakia, and its convening was the climax of a week of ominous moves against the Czechoslovaks. It was also proof of an increasingly apparent fact: however tolerant...
...Heart. Port authorities are even more concerned that the dispute will cause a permanent loss of seaway traffic. "The strike has cut the heart out of the seaway season," says Captain John J. Manley, Chicago port director, who estimates that 750,000 tons of cargo will be diverted to East Coast ports by this week. Such losses could saddle U.S. and Canadian taxpayers with extra burdens. Seaway traffic has lagged so far behind expectations that the $460 million U.S.-Canadian project is still losing money. The seaway has failed to generate enough revenue to retire its bonds on schedule...