Word: european
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Encouraged by the favorable reactions to his European trip last winter, Richard Nixon has been eager to embark on another venture in person-to-person diplomacy. Last week he flew to Canada to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the St. Lawrence Seaway with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and the only real question was where he would go next. The answer: Nearly everywhere. Late this month, the White House announced, Nixon will begin an approximately eleven-day trip around the world that will take him to five Asian countries and the Eastern European state of Rumania -marking the first...
...Moscow? The stopover in Bucharest may ultimately prove even more significant than the Asian swing. Rumania is a leading maverick in the Russians' European orbit. Nixon's visit, Washington believes, will symbolize the fact that the U.S. does not accept the "Brezhnev Doctrine," put forth by Moscow after the invasion of Czechoslovakia to justify Soviet intervention in any independent Communist state within its sphere...
...found people who were willing to give him food. The N.F.W.A. had its first formal meeting in Fresno in September 1962; 287 people showed up. Chavez soon started a death-benefits plan for his members, a curious echo of the burial societies organized decades ago by Eastern European immigrants on their arrival in the U.S. He also set up a credit union with $35 in assets (it now has more than $50,000). By August 1964, he had 1,000 members, each paying $3.50 a month in dues?no small sum for a farm worker's family. Soon he began...
...almost to the point of oblivion. Last week a fresh voice spoke from Paris. It was that of Premier Jacques Chaban-Del-mas. Reflecting the new policy of President Georges Pompidou, Chaban-Del-mas declared: "We are ready to go as fast and as far in the quest of European unification as our partners." To prove France's change of heart, the Premier held out the promise of a European summit. "France is ready to participate in a meeting of the chiefs of state or chiefs of government of the six nations of the community," he said...
...across Europe. In one chancellery after another, old dossiers and old dreams were gingerly dusted off. Britain recalled its ambassadors to the six Common Market countries for an intensive two-day skull session in London to plot the strategy for a new British move to gain admission to the European Economic Community...