Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Combat or Conference. Johnson added that "our decision to stand firm has been matched by our desire for peace" -at which point, many listeners thought that they would hear some news about the peace mission. The President kept mum, but in pursuit of that mission, Vice President Hubert Humphrey last week talked with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in New Delhi, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador at Large Averell Harriman conferred with South Vietnamese officials in Saigon. As the U.S. stretched to its fourth week the halt on bombings of North Viet Nam, the White House also revealed...
...rapidity of his action, that the continuity of Spain's economic, social and political advancement is tied. True democracy in the Western sense may not be on the horizon, for Franco believes - and many of his enemies agree - that Spaniards are so strong-willed that they need a firm hand to keep them in line. The fear is that if Franco disap pears before he has put his house in order, the social fabric of Spain will be stretched to its limit - or beyond - by the struggle for power that might follow...
Before DeGuglielmo can take office, Curry must have a public hearing, and last night the Council set a firm date for this session: 4:30 p.m., Jan. 31. The four members of the Council who favor retaining Curry immediately warned that the hearing would be long and exciting...
...showing the flag of allied support, were the South Vietnamese, the Koreans, Australians and New Zealanders. The other G.I.s had little luck compared with the 173rd's: whether out of tactic or sheer prudence, the Viet Cong lay low. That, in a measure, deprived the U.S. of the firm point Johnson wanted to make: that to underestimate his resolve could be disastrous. So the U.S. made it in other ways. The bombers usually busy over North Viet Nam were put to work blasting the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos, flying as many as 250 sorties a day against...
Dewi, whom the Bung calls Morning Star, had come to Japan to sign a contract with a construction firm for a $3,700,000 hospital to be built in Djakarta with Japanese aid funds. But what seemed uppermost in her mind was dispelling rumors that Sukarno had lost control at home and was about to go into exile in Japan. "Calmness has been restored in Indonesia," she told reporters at the airport. "President Sukarno is in fine health, but he is so busy that he will not be able to leave the country for some time." A couple of days...