Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brien came out for, among other things, a workers' democracy, abrogation of the Anglo-Irish free-trade treaty, and a neutralist foreign policy. Responding to the challenge, the ruling Fianna Fail (Soldiers of Destiny) Party, under Premier John (Jack) Lynch, campaigned against Labor's "alien ideology," and against O'Brien himself. Taking account of the fact that O'Brien has been divorced, they pinned on him the ironic label of "the new pope of Irish morality...
...turned out, Fianna Fail captured 75 seats in the 144-seat Dail, or Parliament, three more than it had before. The equally conservative opposition party, Fine Gael, won 50 and Labor only 18. The result confirmed Lynch, a compromise choice for his party's leadership in 1966, as Taoiseach (chief of the clan) in his own right-and that the Irish are not yet ready for new departures...
...French-Viet Minh war then?the level of U.S. participation in the conflict is going down, not up. So is the draft call, which is dropping more than 3,000 in July to the lowest monthly figure so far this year. Richard Nixon's approach may fail. The effect on the Paris negotiations may be nil (see following story). The North Vietnamese could choose to increase rather than reduce their military effort. Despite these caveats, it is also possible that Nixon's tactics could start a downward trend on the violence scale...
...President to halt tests of missiles equipped with MIRVs, or Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vehicles. Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union have been testing multiple warheads, though the Russians are thought to be considerably behind. The critics argue that if the tests continue, arms-limitation negotiations will fail. The mutual threat of multiple warheads, they insist, will only com mit both sides irrevocably to anti-ballistic missile programs and to another round in the arms race...
...cosmopolitan religion was an excellent way of trying to get back into the stream of history. Time and again the Irish signaled other Catholic countries for help. The French or the Spanish would send a few ships-like Khrushchev sending his missiles halfway to Cuba-and another rising would fail, until a mood of fatalism set in and the old warlike mockery became heavily larded with cries of lament and self-pity: "Poor Wexford, stript naked, hangs high on the cross,/With her heart pierced by traitors and slaves." The warrior, the lugubrious drunk and the ironist all took...