Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oldest and the strongest civil rights group, met to renew its dedication to moderation and responsibility. In Baltimore gathered the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the biggest among a new grouping of black-power organizations that equate moderation with stagnation and demand far more militancy. In the wide gulf between them lurked the threat that the movement may be violently wrenched apart...
...siesta time in Viet Nam's clammy cities as the droop-nosed F-4 Phantom jets snapped off the U.S.S. Ranger's dipping flight deck. Next into the crystalline sky burst four flights of A-4 Skyhawks. Then the mission, 45 planes strong, streaked low across the Gulf of Tonkin toward the craggy, familiar coastline of North Viet Nam-and a target never before attacked by American pilots...
When Reischauer was first sent to Japan it was to mend the "broken dialogue" which had developed between the two nations. Reischauer feels that most of the fundamental work required to breach the gulf in understanding which became most apparent in 1960 has been accomplished...
...help avert a war-or be ready when it comes-Feisal wants to call an Islamic summit conference in Mecca, and has won support from Iran, Morocco, Jordan, Kuwait, Tunisia and the Persian Gulf sheikdoms. "We are seeking only cooperation and solidarity," says Feisal. "All states are invited to heed the call, and President Nasser as a leader is, of course, invited...
There is widespread unhappiness about Johnson's "voluntary" restraints on U.S. capital investments overseas and at home. Though their companies abide by them, both Jersey Standard Chairman Michael Haider and Gulf Oil Senior Vice President W. W. Adams have pointed out that the restraints on spending abroad will weaken the country's balance of payments in the future. Haider also urges cuts in the Government's nondefense spending, which, he notes, has widened the balance-of-payments deficit by increasing demand for imports and diverting some potential exports to domestic markets...