Word: main
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...allies' 31-point, 2,000-word main communique was the first genuinely multilateral statement of war and peace aims in Viet Nam. These aims set fourth with the full concurrence of Saigon, emphasize an accelerated effort to "forge a social revolution, even as the conflict continues." They include wider use of South Vietnamese troops in "clear-and-hold" actions designed not only to rid villages of guerrillas but also to help them build a more productive society afterward, a top-priority program of land reform and agricultural modernization, and scrupulous observance of the Geneva conventions on war prisoners...
...reconciliation - combining Italy's third and fifth largest parties - came 19 years after Saragat led his moderate, democratic faction out of the main par ty, in protest against a Nenni alliance with the Communists. Over the years, Soviet repression in Hungary and elsewhere changed Nenni's mind about the Reds, and in 1957 he split with the Communists and began the first of his many talks with Saragat about reuniting the two parties. In 1963, when Nenni and Saragat joined the Christian Democrats in Italy's center-left coalition government, the two party leaders finally began talking...
Frei's main bill, "Chileanizing" the copper industry, has passed the last legislative hurdle, and awaits only the signatures of some of the participating companies. Under the program, the government will acquire a 51% interest in the U.S.'s Braden Copper Co. and a 25% interest in two other new mining ventures, including one that will expand operations at Chuquicamata, which is already the world's largest open-pit copper mine. Ultimately, Chile hopes to double production by 1970 to 1,200,000 tons a year and bring in an additional $300 million in foreign exchange...
...Issa of organizing a "subversive network seeking to plunge the country into terrorism and panic" and planning a campaign of assassination-financed by Saudi Arabia, Britain, Israel and the U.S. After a 31-hour trial, Ruwainy, Issa and five others were marched into San'a's main square and executed. Eight others who were tried with them received prison sentences ranging from five years to life...
...crackdown came at a time when the main contenders were digging in for a possible new showdown between the Saudi-supported royalists and the Nasser-linked regime. Though Nasser has pared his forces from 70,000 men to 40,000, he noisily threatens to attack the Saudi Arabian border towns supplying the royalists. For his part Saudi King Feisal is arming for more trouble. On top of a long-range $500 million arms package signed last December with the U.S. and Britain, Feisal recently signed an additional smaller arms deal with Britain, for 36 Thunderbird antiaircraft missiles and ten rocket...