Word: na
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...military involvement on a second front. With Arab and Israeli armies massing in the Middle East for a confrontation that could be ignited by inadvertence, another set of American commitments may well be put to the test before long. Said Lyndon Johnson: "To the leaders of all the na tions of the Near East, I wish to say what three Presidents have said before: that the U.S. is firmly committed to the support of the political independence and territorial integrity of all the nations of the area." Added the Pres ident, in an obvious allusion to Viet Nam: "We have...
State of Flux. The job, as previous Secretary John Connor said after resigning his post, is "in a state of flux." One reason why Connor quit after two frustrating years was the steady diminution of Commerce's influence over na tional economic policy, which now is substantively set by the big quadriad of the Administration's Treasury Secretary, Budget Director, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and the head of the Council of Economic Advisers. Thus the Commerce Department's official dominion is slight-and it became even slighter when Johnson last fall created an autonomous Department...
...seats in the lower house of Parliament. Hoping to deal Indira yet another blow, seven opposition parties, ranging from far-rightists to Peking-lining leftists, rallied behind a single candidate, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Subba Rao, a staunch Hindu. But the vote, conducted in the state assemblies and na tional Parliament, went to Husain by a solid margin...
...Peters 3 0 1 Scullen 4 1 1 Totals 3 4 10 Cornell ab r h Riff 5 0 1 Walker 4 0 1 Ritter 2 0 0 Purcell 4 0 1 Verdi 4 0 2 Tylawsky 4 0 0 Newton 2 0 0 Kr'ch'na 2 0 0 Cott 4 0 2 Totals...
Likability Gap. To prove that he can win, Nixon must thus enter every primary in sight. His aides are planning an all-out effort in his behalf in New Hampshire's March 12 first-in-the-na-tion primary, and are looking into the Wisconsin, Nebraska and Oregon contests. They acknowledge that Nixon suffers from a "likability gap," and that might prove his greatest drawback. Nixon, who has yet to live down the 1960 campaign slur "Would you buy a used car from this man?" may be the Republican least capable of exploiting Johnson's personality...