Word: government
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning late last month when a burly general in a French paratroop uniform with a chest full of medals led his 1,000-man army into the commercial capital of Cotonou. "I am taking over," declared General Christophe Soglo, 56, "because of the incapacity of the politicians to govern." With that, he dissolved the government and declared himself chief of state...
...nomination for TIME'S Man of the Year is the Vietnamese guerrilla, who for 25 years has fought, always against great odds, for the right to govern himself...
Some 1,200 miles ahead, Gemini 7 sailed along at 17,290 m.p.h. The strategy of rendezvous, painstakingly plotted by NASA scientists and computers, called for Gemini 6 to catch up by taking advantage of orbital mechanics-the physical laws that govern the motion of orbiting bodies. Those laws state that an orbital path is determined by a delicate balance between gravity, which tries to pull a satellite down, and centrifugal force, which is proportional to the satellite's speed and tends to shove it farther away from the earth. A satellite orbiting close to earth, where the pull...
...keep the economy from spinning out of control, the Johnson Administration has been applying the "new economics," a kind of Keynesianism-plus that relies on Government intervention to sustain steady, noninflationary growth. As Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler put it in a speech to the Executives' Club of Chicago: "Your Govern- ment stands ready to blow the whistle impartially on labor and on business...
This African extremism has increased the fears of the European extremists. When I was home this summer one of them said to me, "If we allow the Africans to take over the government there will be chaos. Look what happened a few years ago in the Harari African township when the two rival African parties declared a virtual war on each other and started burning each other's huts down. If the European law had not stepped in the total African population may have become involved. How can we let these people govern our country...