Word: east
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Most Americans (52% to 32%) think a third World War can be avoided, and lopsided majorities favor reducing East-West tensions in general. In particular, they would approve agreements with the Soviet Union to enlarge the U.N.'s peace-keeping role and to control nuclear weapons. While they support such initiatives, however, the only one given a real chance of success is nuclear-arms limitation; 51% think that is likely to come about, while 28% disagree and 21 % are uncertain...
...residents of East Germantown, Ind., were evacuated when 61 cars of a 110-car Penn Central train were derailed, spraying the area with chemicals that set fires and sparked explosions. In Texas, 13 cars of a Kansas City South ern freight train carrying inflammable liquefied gas were derailed south of Texarkana. Six families were evacuated when a fire seemed likely. No one was injured in the two derailments. But the rolling fright continues...
...Gaulle has always seen visions-of France as the leader of a European third force that could be the arbiter between East and West; of himself as a barrier against the Communists and the "conspiracy"-to his mind equally malign-of the Anglo-Americans to dominate Europe. For a surprisingly long time, the Gaullist enterprises worked, at least well enough to keep France satisfied...
...Cairo, the Egyptian government repudiated the cease-fire lines on the grounds that Israel had fortified the east bank of the canal and the world "cannot expect us to observe the cease-fire in the face of such fortifications." The U.S. termed Egypt's step "retrogressive" and, along with Britain, appealed to both sides to respect the truce. United Nations Secretary-General U Thant gloomily said that "the cease-fire has become almost totally ineffective in the Suez Canal sector, and a virtual state of active war now exists there...
Rogers had followed just such a policy. He had left the East and gone to Minnesota, where he "set up his lightning rod" as expert on foreign policy. When the State Department decided that it needed a man from the Midwest Rogers was the logical choice...