Word: generalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most important difference between the time just before the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 and today is the widely held conviction that the Arabs would get licked in any new adventure. In other ways, the similarities between the two periods are proving quite remarkable. Last week United Nations Secretary-General U Thant warned both sides that U.N. observers cannot "continue indefinitely" to be exposed to artillery fire across the Suez Canal. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, in a May Day speech that was his most belligerent since the war, declared: "We are planning for attack. Our forces...
...were still trying to put together a new government. They were also seeking a policy that would mollify the guerrillas without bringing on Israel's wrath-particularly since Charles de Gaulle's pledge to protect Lebanon from an Israeli invasion has presumably gone the way of the general...
...down. Three of Chou's closest associates were dropped, among them Foreign Minister Chen Yi. All three had come under heavy Red Guard fire over the past three years, and analysts believe that Mao, despite Chou's attempts to protect them, decided that they were dispensable. In general, the Politburo now seems divided into three main groups: the Mao-Lin section (twelve members), which retains control; the People's Liberation Army segment (six members), which mistrusts Lin because he espoused the extremism and instability of the Cultural Revolution; and the so-called Pragmatists, which now encompasses only...
Although Okinawa has its own chief executive, he is subordinate to the American High Commissioner, who currently is Lieut. General James B. Lampert. The "Hicom," as local slang dubs him, has full veto power over all island legislation, can intervene in civil and criminal legal matters at will and even remove any public official from office...
...Senator J. William Fulbright and perhaps even of Dr. Spock. War supporters who have been drummed out of the fraternity include Dean Rusk, John Roche and Eric Hoffer. As a crypto-opponent, Robert S. McNamara is slowly being reinstated, and the admissions committee is eyeing a most impressive candidate: General David M. Shoup, a Marine hero who calls the U.S. "a militaristic and aggressive nation...