Word: majored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Foreign Policy: I think on balance he's done well. He has proceeded cautiously and constructively. Certainly nothing very daring. He has shown prudence and a moderate tone. He has committed no major blunders...
...served in North Vietnamese prison camps; their release brought to nine the number of U.S. prisoners released by Hanoi since early 1968. The men were turned over to a four-member American peace group that had come to Hanoi to escort them home (see box). Obviously, propaganda was a major element in North Viet Nam's gesture. But whatever Hanoi's motives and however callously it toyed with the hopes harbored by the families of remaining prisoners, the release itself was a welcome occasion...
...Force Major Roger Dean Ingvalson talked to the peace group of sports and the moon landing but declined to discuss the war. "It's all very complicated," he said. Air Force Captain Anthony Andrews inquired about the Dow-Jones industrial averages and asked the delegation to relay instructions to his wife that it was time to trade in the family car. Navy Lieut. Edward F. Miller said little except to ask about the moon landing and other current events...
...political victory for West Germany. A lower-priced franc reduces the pressures on the Bonn government to raise the 25? value of the robust Deutsche Mark. The mark is overvalued in comparison with the dollar and pound as well as with the franc, and that disparity has become a major source of international speculative troubles. But Germany has resisted any change on the ground that it would only touch off domestic inflation...
...marathon five-hour opening speech, Ceauşescu reiterated his departures from Kremlin orthodoxy. A major point was economics. The Soviets wish to bring about a greater consolidation with Comecon, the Communist counterpart of the European Common Market. But Ceauşescu wants to widen trade relations and draw on the West's technical and financial strength. Declared the Rumanian leader: "The intensification of economic collaboration must allow the ever stronger development of each national economy. It must be based on respect for the independence and sovereignty of each socialist state...