Word: globalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Global Dog. For all the confident serenity of his campaign, Nixon's aloof campaign style is a calculated gamble. Despite the odds against him in the opinion polls, Romney's aggressive courtship is obviously beginning to win some supporters. Where Nixon treats Viet Nam in gingerly generalities, Romney has lately hammered out at least a comprehensible if debatable formula calling for "neutralization" of the two Viet Nams, Laos and Cambodia. In fact, the Michigander's war views are beginning to intersect more and more with those of Democratic Peace Candidate Eugene McCarthy. "The pattern of public deception...
...losing the war," he insists, adding with a flourish of Romneyesque euphuism: "The Viet Nam tail is wagging our global dog." And, in the midst of his political rhetoric, Mormon Romney invariably ticks off a litany of the nation's six "declines": "Decline of religious conviction, moral character, the quality of family life, the principle of individual responsibility, patriotism, and respect...
...nothing but the world's abuse, if South Viet Nam is left to its fate, then what will follow, as surely as Austria followed the Rhineland, and Czechoslovakia followed Austria, and Poland followed Czechoslovakia and six years of world war followed Poland, is a nuclear confrontation on a global scale between the forces at present engaged in one tiny corner of the globe...
Small Comfort. Such delay, however, could prove costly in the end by enabling the smaller and slower (1,450 m.p.h.) Anglo-French Concorde to snare more of the global SST market. At stake is a potential $40 billion in foreign orders for the U.S. plane, which would help the balance of payments. For the moment, the U.S. can take small comfort from delays abroad. Though the Concorde prototype was originally supposed to make its maiden flight next week at Toulouse, chances are that it will be another three months getting off the ground...
...pedaler of anti-Communist alarm, Sihanouk finally seems to have, recognized the root of much of his trouble-at least until he changes his mind again. Already besieged by North Vietnamese troops who use his country as sanctuary, he now faces a second Communist threat. The Prince attacked the "global strategy of Asian Communism," crying: "We are being driven into...