Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elizabeth visited the Nymphenburg porcelain factory in Munich and watched the German Olympics equestrian team go through its paces. Over a lunch of lobster Vierjahreszeiten, duckling a I'orange, peaches Bavarian and four German wines, she heard Bavaria's Premier Alfons Goeppel talk of the need for friendship between Britain and Germany. "We have been slow, perhaps, in realizing this," he said. "But there the famous phrase of your nation applies-better late than never...
Learning from TV. Much of that money went into a sound, economic infrastructure for the northeast. The newly completed 380-mile "Friendship Highway," with its 500 miles of feeder roads, cuts the travel time between Bangkok and the Laotian border from weeks (depending on the weather) to a mere eight hours, at the same time opening vast new markets for the northeast's cash crops of jute, tobacco and maize. Last week more than 300 vehicles an hour were moving along the highway. And if Communist aggression ever comes to Thailand on the scale of Viet Nam, the highway...
Africa and the Arab world? The King, for his part, has become increasingly concerned over demonstrations and student riots at home. How better to win leftist hearts than by swearing eternal friendship to Ben Bella...
Mood of Angst. This sort of glass touching has all but shattered for West Germany the high hopes with which it concluded the Franco-German Treaty of Friendship back in 1963. From Common Market cooperation to German hopes for some sort of Atlantic nuclear sharing, De Gaulle has proved increasingly obdurate in insisting on his vision of an independent France running Europe, with West Germany at best a junior partner. As a result, the Germans have fallen into a new mood of Angst about their own role in Europe...
...Diet (Parliament). "Japan maintains diplomatic relations with Nationalist China," he said shortly after his victory, "and trade with Communist China is on the basis of a separation of economics from politics," "This pragmatic division aims at increasing profitable trade with Red China while retaining American friendship...