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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weapons and men against the most sophisticated weaponry that U.S. money can buy. "Hatred" doesn't fit; "respect" might be closer to the mark. It might be easier to work up some fear of Ho Chi Minh if he were leading a platoon of Viet Cong down the main street of Honolulu...
...same question for the United Nations General Assembly, which reconvenes later this month to discuss the Arab-Israeli war. What business is it of the U.N.'s? he asked. "Our advice to the General Assembly will be not to attempt what is beyond its power and responsibility. The main responsibility for working out a solution of this conflict rests in the area itself. It is for Israel and the Arab states together to formulate and determine the conditions of their coexistence. A solution cannot arise externally...
Everyone in Stockholm seemed to have set his alarm clock to sound off be fore dawn. By 4 a.m., cars, motor scooters and flower-decked taxis that had been hired months before streamed downtown to the Kungsgatan, the city's main street. There they waited through a solemn radio countdown. At the stroke of five, loudspeakers blared: "Now is the time to change over." In a brief but monumental traffic jam, Sweden switched to the right side of the road...
...companies to ignore seniority rights and normal grievance arbitration procedures. Beyond that, by making the U.A.W.'s constitutional ban against wildcat strikes inoperative, the contract expirations will no doubt encourage union militants to stage local walkouts. Any production curtailment at G.M. or Chrysler would ease one of the main pressures on Ford to come to terms...
...Johnson Administration has so far maintained a hands-off policy. As long as the strike is confined to just one automaker, said Gardner Ackley, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, it might "somewhat dampen" the nation's economic activity, but "its main effect will be to postpone production sales and incomes into later months...