Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mainstream. Discussing Viet Nam, he reiterated his opposition to bombing north of the DMZ, but saw "no quick or easy steps" for settling the war. McCarthy rejected the notion of a precipitous pullout, observing that the U.S. should draw back to a somewhat vague point "where you can expect the South Viet Nam government to assume major responsibility...
...Britain, things do not promise to improve any time soon. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research esti mates that at best the effects of devaluation will improve Britain's balance of payments by only $156 million in 1968; not until late in 1969 can it expect to turn smartly into the black. Meantime, domestic food prices have risen 3.8% since devaluation and will rise 5% to 15% after the first of the year. The powerful Trades Union Council still insists that it will seek a wage rise of an average $1.68 a week to take effect next...
Perhaps it was too much to expect that Montrealers could have respected his request for a quiet, unpublicized departure. More than 6,500 letters had arrived bidding him Godspeed, and now TV crews, newsmen and 750 well-wishers thronged Montreal's International Airport to say farewell to Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger, 63, as he left his archdiocese for self-imposed missionary work in an African leper colony. "When I first made my decision, I felt all alone, but in a month it has become apparent that I have obeyed God's will," said the cardinal. "I leave with...
...defer whether to induct the oldest or the youngest first, and how to select the 300,000 draftees from an eligible pool of more than one million. Neither official nor unofficial Washington knows what the President will decide, but there are already some clear indications of what to expect...
...Republicans claimed to be holding their own, but their position was perilous. Even though it boasts Russian equipment-including a few MIG-19s-the Republican army is no match for the Royalists' mountain tribesmen, who are the fiercest warriors in Yemen. Nor can the Republicans expect help from Nasser, whose last troops left in the middle of last week's fighting. Although the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram charged that the CIA was behind the Royalists, the government made it plain that it considers the fighting essentially a "domestic Yemeni affair." Thus, after years of stalemate, the Yemeni civil...