Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the take-over last week, Sadik gathered with his followers in the anteroom of the holy tomb of the Mahdi in Omdurman. Dressed in a white silk galabia, he spoke in a whisper, but he professed not to be discouraged by the army takeover and hinted that there might be further upheaval. "Any coup is born with a countercoup," he told TIME Correspondent William Smith, adding, "We believe our task in the ultimate reform of the Sudan is not made more difficult by what has happened...
Whatever other failings his regime might have, Argentine Dictator Juan Carlos Ongania could fairly claim that he had given his country "a climate of work, of tranquillity, of peace" since he took over 35 months ago. Last week Argentina's placid surface was shattered, as riots spread through the nation's largest cities. The demonstrations pitted an alliance of students and workers against the army-posing the severest test yet for Ongania's rule...
...toward Peking is based on the likelihood that after the passing of Mao, who is 75, there will be a power struggle in China between the moderates and Mao-style radicals. An easing of tensions between the U.S. and Peking, goes the theory, would strengthen the moderates. Therefore, it might well be unwise to wait until the new regime is actually in place before the U.S. restyles its policy. By trying to draw China into the world mainstream, however futile at present, the U.S. could at least put the onus of intransigence on Peking. At best it could involve Peking...
...overall goal should be the evolution of an Asian balance of power, a mosaic of self-interest that induces Asians, including the Chinese, to trade rather than quarrel with their neighbors. To that end, distant as it now seems, Washington might well take several small to middling unilateral steps demonstrating that the U.S. poses no threat to China and its regime, and that it desires conciliation whenever Peking is ready for it. Says Harvard Sinologist James C. Thomson Jr., a former State Department and National Security Council official: "Why wait for the other man to blink? Why not try winking...
...Government officials might be more cautious in the language they use about Communist China. Much justification for the ABM, for instance, initially stressed that the system was designed against Chinese nuclear attack. The implication, holds University of Chicago Political Scientist Tang Tsou, is that "the Chinese leaders are mad enough to think of attacking the U.S. and thus inviting U.S. retaliation. The argument only encourages the radicals in China...