Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help shed the image that the Viet Cong are only jungle fighters in black pajamas, the Front pointedly named a chic woman to head its delegation. She is Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, 41, a member of the N.L.F. Central Committee and vice president of the South Viet Nam Woman's Liberation Union. A lifelong revolutionary who was first jailed by the French in 1950 for leading a demonstration against a U.S. arms shipment, Madame Binh is a well-traveled veteran of the Communist diplomatic circuit. She has represented the N.L.F. at conferences in Moscow, Peking and Cairo...
...Franco government, and almost anything the regime does is likely to have unpleasant consequences. Having all but hand-picked the defiant Deputies, the generalissimo can hardly slap them en masse behind bars-or expect to find more compliant replacements for them. On the other hand, if "this attempt to help bring about a varying of opinion and the democratic evolution of the country," as one Deputy put it, is allowed to succeed, it could well become the focal point of dissent against Franco's rule...
...well be that a united and progressing Nigeria would be a threat to the French economic dominance of West Africa. Seemingly, the French cannot lose. If Biafra wins, they may get a good deal on the oil. Should events take a turn for the worse, France probably will help Biafra set up a government-in-exile here in Gabon. If, as seems possible, French arms shipments succeed in prolonging the war one or two years, then even if Biafra is defeated, an exhausted Nigeria will not be a threat for some time to come...
...British colony with posters proclaiming "Long Live Chairman Mao," it was hardly surprising. But there were other signs shrieking "Go Home Gregory Peck," and that seemed curious. What upset the left wing was The Chairman, a film in which Peck plays a U.S. scientist who enters Red China to help a Chinese colleague escape from Mao's clutches. The Chinese press railed at the moviemakers for "insulting the cultural revolution and provoking 700 million Chinese people." In Hong Kong, the anti-Peck campaign, complete with bomb threats and promises of demonstrations, finally reached a point where the government canceled...
Neither Black nor White. Hayakawa, who has spoken repeatedly and vigorously on the need for more effective civil rights initiatives, professes some hope that his own color will help him work out a compromise between black militants and whites at S.F. State. "In a very profound sense," he said, "I stand in the middle. I am neither white nor black." Thus he would like to be come "a channel to bring blacks and whites together...