Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kosygin?who was watching the President on television and getting a running translation?Johnson said: "We think we have made great progress in improving the arena of common action with the Soviet Union. Our purpose is to narrow our differences?where they can be narrowed?and thus to help secure peace in the world for future generations." In a less charitable aside to the Communists, Johnson proposed that all Middle East nations report new weapons shipments into the region. "Now the waste and futility of the arms race," said Johnson, "must be apparent to all the peoples of the world...
...Trouble Is . . ." Yet for all of Stokely's rabble-rousing, a band of youths similar to the "white hats" who proved so effective in Tampa and Dayton (see following story) was recruited the next day to help dampen any potential riot sparks. Dixie Hills looked as if it might avoid serious bloodshed. Shortly after dark, however, there was another brief flurry of rock throwing, and a Molotov cocktail landed at the feet of policemen patrolling the area. Almost instantaneously at least one shotgun blast was fired, killing an onlooker and injuring three others, one critically. Though police insisted that...
...week wore on, though, Israel was reminded that it was not as lonely as Eban had thought. Communist Rumania's Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer broke publicly with the Moscow line, called for direct "negotiations and agreements" between Israel and the Arabs. He promised his government's help in reaching a settlement based on peaceful coexistence. U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg spoke up for Israel on the floor of the Assembly, and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk worked energetically in a series of private sessions with delegates from Latin America and 13 French-speaking African nations...
...South Viet Nam's 13,000 hamlets have been successfully and permanently secured, and General William C. Westmoreland, U.S. armed forces chief in South Viet Nam, plans to expand his search-and-destroy operations into search-destroy-and-hold operations. The change, he figures, will help maintain security over liberated villages and give the now-foundering pacification program new hope...
Original Cherry Blossoms. If the socialist versions of Western lyrics sound a little choppy, it is because some Slavic languages "lack words of one syllable, which help rhythm, and are short on vowels," explains Czech Translator Jirima Fikejzova. "In any case," she adds, "we try to be more original and avoid the banal, moon-June endings of American songs...