Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...infiltration of arms and men from North Viet Nam is on the increase. One alleged route: from Red China and North Viet Nam by ship to Sihanoukville, the new port of "neutralist" Cambodia, thence in junks to the Mekong Delta or by truck along Cambodia's U.S.-built "Friendship Highway" and by boat down the Mekong River...
...erase their British past. Coins and currency still bear Queen Elizabeth's likeness, and British-trained civil servants, both white and black, retain a firm grip on important ministries. Spry old Sir Alexander Bustamante, 79, the craggy-faced patriarch of a Premier, preaches patience, order and unswerving friendship with the West...
...Johnson's chairmanship. Lyndon also became Kennedy's sometime emissary overseas. In 1961 he went to Southeast Asia, continued around the world. Later that year he was rushed to Berlin when The Wall went up. In 1962 he barnstormed through the Middle East, struck up his famous friendship with Bashir Ahmad, the camel driver. So far this year Johnson has been in Scandinavia and the Benelux countries...
...Europea he envisions is not a system of closely integrated national entities. Rather it is an alliance of foreign policies that would be canalized through the government of the strongest--quite naturally France. In the meantime, France will flex her muscles where she likes. Last year's Franco-German friendship treaty has provoked the charge within the Atlantic Alliance and Common Market that France is seeking a "special relationship" with West Germany. Despite breast-beating denials in Paris, the terms of the treaty quite clearly ally the two republics in a "special" way. More recently, France has made her presence...
...Friendship may work; at least hostility has not paid. And seldom has a new Chief of Naval Operations taken over at such a stormy time. Items: > The Navy's top command is scrambled. McDonald himself succeeds Admiral George Anderson, whose option was dropped because he disagreed too often and too publicly with McNamara. While McDonald is popular, the manner of Anderson's ousting was hardly calculated to raise Navy morale. No sooner had McDonald assumed his new post than Navy Secretary Fred Korth was fired-for writing letters on his official stationery concerning business for his old employer...