Word: harolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians have never been particularly happy about the war there. But to retain credibility in their struggle with Red China for paramountcy in the Communist world and to avoid any sign of weakness, they have flatly rejected appeals from Westerners-especially from Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson last July-to help in launching negotiations that would end the war. "If you want to talk peace," they have said, in effect, "go to Hanoi." For their part, Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, while scathingly denouncing Hanoi, Peking and Communists in general on the question of Viet...
...American efficiency expert took a look at the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and wryly reported that the British work force "takes a substantial part of its wages not in money but in leisure, most particularly in the leisure that is taken at the place of employment." Prime Minister Harold Wilson noted the same thing with a Yorkshireman's economy of speech. "Sheer damn laziness," he said, is Britain's besetting sin, and the nation's need is "a full day's work for a full...
This time the stop is so serious that Harold Wilson has taken "steps that have not been taken by any other democratic government in the world," as he told President Johnson. The steps: freezing wages and prices throughout Britain for six months, to be followed by another half-year of "great restraint." The wage freeze is the more important in the gimlet eyes of Britain's foreign creditors, who have put up more than $3 billion to defend the pound. For if Wilson cannot hold down wage increases in a period when his other taxation and monetary measures...
...formation flight should never have been permitted, said Air Force Secretary Harold Brown. In the first place, it was "of questionable propriety" because it violated a Defense Department directive that all requests for Air Force assistance in taking commercial or advertising pictures must be cleared at a high level. Moreover, the XB-70 was such a highly valuable plane that it should never have been placed in such a potentially dangerous situation. Brown singled out for blame the officers who authorized the picture-taking mission. He relieved Colonel Albert M. Gate from his job as deputy for systems testing...
...United Nations maintains a special committee to catalogue and denounce the injustices of apartheid, which is under almost constant attack in the General Assembly as well as in the capitals of the free world. Former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan flew to Cape Town in 1960 to urge South Africans to bend