Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris. An appropriate response to these attacks will be made if they continue." The attacks have gone on, and while the U.S. combat toll fell off from 453 in the first week of the offensive to 336 in the second, casualties are still running more than double the level earlier this year. From Saigon, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker has urged that Nixon resume bombing North Viet Nam as a boost to South Vietnamese morale, but the President has rejected that course for the present...
With more than a quarter of its top policy posts yet to be filled, the Nixon Administration has been making haste slowly-very slowly-in putting its stamp on the federal bureaucracy. When the Viet Nam "11 o'clock group," composed of middle-level officials from several agencies who review important operational questions, convened at the State Department last week, all the faces were familiar from the Johnson era. Though hardly trifling, the vitriolic, five-month-old dispute with Peru over seizure of U.S. oil properties is just now receiving close attention. The new Assistant Secretary of State...
...which became an urban battlefield in 1968, has so far felt the offensive's blows only in the form of rocket salvos. There are no new curfew restrictions, no hoarding, no staggering price increases. Acts of terrorism, while still a threat, are well below last year's level, and the number of civilians made refugees in the current offensive is 23,877, less than 5% of the total last year...
Disintegrating Relations. Valdés' message, relayed to Washington from Santiago, contained four face-saving provisos for the sovereignty-conscious Peruvian junta. Velasco would receive a U.S. emissary, but that representative must be 1) a high-level personage, 2) President Nixon's special representative, 3) armed with discretionary powers to negotiate broadly, and 4) willing to come to Lima. The Administration has been increasingly concerned over its disintegrating hemispheric relations; at his press conference two weeks ago, President Nixon ruefully admitted that imposing the Hickenlooper Amendment would have an anti-American domino effect all over South America. Therefore...
...also burdened with a play that was by no means his first choice (although its author, Jacinto Benavente, won the Nobel Prize for Drama and the original production of the play ran for more than 850 performances in 1907). A week ago, Cooper's own energy level was so low that he didn't even know if he would really want to put on the play...