Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intricacies, Nixon felt that he should not meet with South Viet Nam's Nguyen Van Thieu until well after he had publicly outlined his own ideas on ending the war. Then, early in May, the Viet Cong proposed its ten-point plan in Paris, and less than a week later the President responded with his own eight-point proposal (TIME, May 23). The prospect for movement was growing faster than Nixon had anticipated. The meeting with Thieu, first planned for July, was moved up to June...
...right in the heart and you won't feel a thing?' He said, Tm innocent, Ray, but if you've got to do it . . .' So I hit him in the heart and it went right through him." Some victims were less cooperative, such as the one many years ago described by Anthony Boiardo, son of Ruggiero ("the Boot") Boiardo: "The Boot hit him with a hammer. The guy goes down and he comes up. So I got a crowbar this big, Ray. Eight shots in the head. What do you think he finally...
...other issues. In riposte, Pompidou's supporters noted dryly that as a Senator, Poher had not opposed creation of the state-security tribunal that he was now criticizing. But Pompidou himself declined to comment on most of Poher's criticism. Like the majority of Frenchmen, Pompidou seemed less interested in the campaign windup than in looking ahead to a France under his leadership. Reconciliation. Well aware that he would need the trust of his citizens above all, Pompidou has constantly emphasized reconciliation-between Gaullists and non-Gaullists, between workers and patrons, between the presidency and the legislature, between...
Curiously, the Cabinet may be even less important under Pompidou than it was under De Gaulle. For although the imperious general ruled France, in many areas he failed to govern it. Many of the details of his policies and much of the routine administration did not interest him, and he left such matters to his ministers. That is not likely to be true of Pompidou, who is a superb administrator and has already told his inner circle that he intends to govern as well as rule...
...caucus to modify their original position papers. At their hosts' invitation, the delegates assembled one night in the Kremlin's modern Palace of Congresses for a performance of Ukrainian folk music and dancing. Some delegates on other nights went to the Bolshoi ballet. For those with less sophisticated tastes, there were those lovable perennials, the famous trained bears riding their bicycles at the Moscow Circus...