Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It promises to be a busy intermission, filled with diplomatic talk and travel. Australia's outward-looking new Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, for instance, is due in Djakarta the end of this month to discuss expansion of a bilateral defense agreement with Indonesia. Doubtless he will also lobby for...
Panic. Like the President, the CEA stressed the need for economic restraint in order to prevent greater inflation. It said that the pace of the nation's boom should be slowed in the second half of the year by a combination of budget hold-downs and a less rapid...
Increasingly it seemed to lack meaning and therefore justification. The official arguments for fighting it kept changing?and kept being undermined. How could a war to stop Communist expansion be explained when President Nixon was making friends with the leaders of the two great Communist powers? To a country that...
Surprise. In a move that was clearly intended to add some muscle to that rebuff, the Soviets struck back at the West on the other great European negotiations front, the long-discussed talks on mutual and balanced force reductions (MBFR) by NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations. Last November, NATO...
- Rene Schaller, 37, once studied theology at Strasbourg and Paris but decided he did not have a vocation to the priesthood. Now a marriage counselor, he is married, has two children and is a driving force behind the international expansion of the diaconate. A deacon since 1970, Schaller has made...