Word: intendancy
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With or without Russian aid, however, all Arab nations intend to pursue the battle against Israel. Almost without exception, their leaders reject Israeli peace terms, swear that they will neither negotiate with the Israelis nor recognize their existence. Last week, in the face of devastating defeat, the Arabs were quoting to each other an old saying by Mao Tse-tung: "Fight, fail, fight again, fail again, but fight on to final victory...
...know: there would be no face-down between the Big Two. Russia, said Kosygin, did not plan to enter the conflict, but would do so if the U.S. stepped in. Johnson and his aides drafted a reply on the spot, directly assuring Kosygin that the U.S. did not intend to intervene...
...impression that no one, including me, knew what he was talking about at the Faculty meeting," Schelling says. The group, organized under the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics, met for 10 Saturday mornings to educate themselves on the selective service system. Initially, it did not intend to release statements, but three weeks ago released the following preliminary report, which was agreed upon unanimously by the 14 members...
Finland's major achievement in the 20th century is that it still exists. It is thus little wonder that the 4,600,000 Finns intend to mark the 50th anniversary of their country's independence this year with a series of national celebrations. The festivities began this week with a parade of Finland's modest armed forces through the capital of Helsinki, whose distinction is that it is the world's second northernmost capital (after Iceland's Reykjavik). While the navy's Russian-built destroyers rode at anchor in the harbor, the army...
...back as the 1920s, the Y.W. dropped from its charter the requirement that members must be "ladies in good standing with an evangelical church." Although the Y.W. is no longer significantly Protestant-its membership includes Jews, Catholics and even atheists-its leaders intend to keep the word Christian in the organization's name. The Y.W., says Chicago Assistant Director Lucille Lamkin, is still basically religious, not in any narrow denominational sense but in the spirit of commitment and responsibility. "It is because we are Christian," says she, "that we welcome everybody...