Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impending nuclear tests, France must also slow down the development of its force de frappe, whose creation runs directly counter to the present world trend of bringing nuclear weaponry under controls. Charles de Gaulle will now have to pay much more attention to domestic affairs. He has already moved fast in the area of greatest peril, the economic front. Despite France's huge foreign-reserve losses, De Gaulle seems to have managed to stave off any immediate devaluation of the franc. In an effort to ease inflationary pressures within France, he last week allowed new Economics Minister Maurice Couve...
...devoted to bringing everything up to date, getting the laws updated, the mechanisms in place. There will probably be a lot of criticism in the early months and early years that I am not doing enough. But I'd rather have that than try to start out fast and peter...
...economic differences that are exacerbated by the vast distances within the country. Its small population does not provide a large enough domestic market for a sustained economic boom. The income gap between the wealthy and the deprived, between the poorer and richer provinces, is still large and not shrinking fast enough...
...River valley and now being fortified by U.S. Seabees, has a good airstrip. Unlike Khe Sanh, it is outside the 17-mile reach of North Vietnamese artillery dug into the mountains across the Laotian border. Under the new plan, Marines equipped with borrowed helicopters will try to move fast and throw cordons around North Vietnamese in filtrating the area. They will also substitute aggressive reconnaissance patrols for the blocking role formerly held by Khe Sanh and the hill outposts that surrounded it, which are now also being abandoned. The technique has already had some success: Marine units south...
Even before last year's Arab-Israeli war, the Suez Canal was fast diminishing in importance. Oil tankers, which accounted for almost half of all Suez traffic, were getting too big for it. As a result, more and more Middle Eastern oil was being shipped in giant tankers around the Cape of Good Hope. Faced with the prospect of dwindling profits from the waterway, Egypt began giving thought to building an overland pipeline as an alternate route for transmitting oil to the Mediterranean Sea. Then, when Israel came up with the same idea following...