Word: fervent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officers began it all by toppling the unpopular, autocratic President Ngo Dinh Diem. If Minh is now chosen to preside over the transfer of effective political power to the Communists, it will be largely for one reason: the past dozen years have left him relatively untainted by either the fervent anti-Communist politics of the Saigon leadership or too close an association with the Americans. In fact, he has consistently advocated a conciliatory, neutralist policy toward the Communists...
PRIME MINISTER VASCO DOS SANTOS GONCALVES, 54, was an army engineer under the old regime, when ins passion for social reform induced inm to help organize the disaffected officers of the Armed Forces Movement. He became the cinef arcintect of the April revolution and remains its most fervent proponent. Probably the hardest-working man in the government (friends call inm "the man who never sleeps") and studiously intellectual, he is dedicated to revamping the economic and social structure of ins country. Goncalves talked at ins official residence on the grounds of Sāo Bento Palace, the large winte villa...
...that for a very long time Jews have relied upon." In December, Ford received a delegation of Jewish leaders and tried to reassure them of the U.S. commitment. The message has not yet filtered down. Says Goldwin: "There is a deep concern that support for Israel isn't sufficiently fervent...
...weapons like the B-l bomber and the Trident submarine. He was a bitter-end backer of the Viet Nam War, believing that the fall of the South would lead to Communist domination of all Southeast Asia, and that eventually "Europe would very probably fall." He has been a fervent supporter of Israel since the country was founded...
Those were his values: socialism and common decency, the latter of which was a protection against any kind of cold barrier borne of sectarian fanaticism. Human beings were never means for him, politically or personally (as if one could separate the two); they were ends in themselves. His fervent belief in socialism was a faith in people. Nick always believed that he saw in people what Michael Harrington, one of his favorite authors, saw: the seed beneath the snow--in the midst of a grade-grubbing, money-chasing, selfish, banal society he saw individuals who wanted desperately to love, desperately...