Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unless the President puts a stop to Postmaster General Day's great smut hunt, the New Frontier may become known as "the New Inquisition...
...that this new you-never-had-it-so-good generation is both weary of Tory rule and leary of Socialist dogma, the Labor program today emphasizes "pragmatism" and "responsibility" rather than headlong plunges into doctrinaire" experiments. The party's catchwords, a heady blend of Gladstonian rhetoric and New Frontier pep talk, call for "a sense of purpose" to "get Britain moving." How much of its ambitious program will actually be enacted depends on the kind of majority it can win at the polls. But there are some fair indications of what Labor aims...
...rights went by the boards. As it happens, Massachusetts-bred Jack and Bobby Kennedy both genuinely believe in equal rights. But as it also happens, there is such a thing as practical politics-and the Kennedys figured that they would need Southern Democratic votes in Congress if the New Frontier's legislative programs were to have a chance of passage...
...several Southern states to, say, Conservative Republican Barry Goldwater. At the same time, Negroes are out of sorts with the Administration. Early last week Kennedy's old friend, Martin Luther King Jr., comparing the Kennedy record on civil rights with that of the Eisenhower Administration, said the New Frontier had merely substituted "an inadequate approach for a miserable one." In New York, Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, declared that it was time for the President to "place human rights above regional politics" and to "exhibit the kind of guts that he himself described...
Heading the advance guard, Von Horn took off for Yemen's capital city of San'a with the objective of 1) ending Saudi Arabian aid to the royalist rebels, 2) creating a 25-mile demilitarized strip along the Saudi-Yemeni frontier, and 3) supervising the phased withdrawal of 28,000 Egyptian troops who have spent the last eight months bloodily propping up the republican regime of President Abdullah Sallal against the royalist mountain tribes fighting to restore deposed Imam Mohamed el Badr to his 1,000-year-old throne...