Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oiled the analytical machinery of his new government. The Communist offensive of spring 1969 in Viet Nam is the first sudden test thrust upon it from abroad without lead time for exhaustive reflection. If the Nixon Administration can meet this challenge and go on to find the honorable end to the war that Nixon promised in his campaign, there will be hope that finally the U.S. can fully devote its great energies to resolving its domestic crises. If Nixon fails, the U.S. may well sink back into the swamp of suspicion and dissension in which his predecessor left...
Nixon has taken a deliberately go-slow approach to the nation's problems, and he has yet to produce anything resembling a full legislative program. He can move abruptly at times, however. He announced his plan to end Post Office patronage without consulting the congressional postal committees. While he had first counseled against haste in filling the more than 100 sub-Cabinet jobs still vacant, he ordered a speedup before leaving for Europe...
...project last summer if he could have arranged, as the Soviets wished, to begin arms-control talks. He had on his desk an unsigned message confirming his willingness to negotiate on the night that Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin brought him word of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. That was the end of that...
...week's end, with the departure for Moscow of Soviet Marshal Ivan Yakubovsky, the Warsaw Pact commander who personally directed the exercises, the maneuvers and perhaps also the delays seemed about to end. In Moscow, Soviet officials insisted that Yakubovsky, whose travels in the past have some times presaged Soviet pressures, had been sent to East Berlin this time only in order to keep the East Germans in line. Still, a lingering fear remained among West Germans and West Berliners that the Communists would use their new charge about illegal armament production in the city to selectively harass freight...
...made. Hazel Bushes, which deals with the life and wives of a Parisian banker named Francois Perret-La-tour, is "very different from what I have done before." Where earlier books usually had a kind of bittersweet resignation as a conclusion, this one, says Simenon, "has optimism at the end...