Word: national
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After three months in office, the Nixon Administration cannot claim much success in gaining the confidence of the nation's 23 million Negroes or that of other minorities with similar problems. "I really don't think Mr. Nixon is sensitive to the problems of black people and poor people," says Ralph Abernathy,Martin Luther King's successor as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. "Blacks regard him as a President who is concerned only with the welfare of the rich and" the affluent."Liberals in Congress, who generally have been chary in their criticism of Nixon...
...possible, concurrent withdrawal plan satisfactory to North Viet Nam and the U.S. alike. The Administration is banking-perhaps too optimistically-on Hanoi's having a growing desire for peace. As the Air Force had it, the massive U.S. bombardment of North Viet Nam would crack that nation's morale. It achieved the opposite result: by putting everyone in the front lines, the bombing created a spirit of defiance. But, as the theory goes, without the unifying goad of bombs, the hard-pressed peasants now have the leisure to reflect on their privations. As evidence, the monitors of Hanoi...
...controversy could hardly have been predicted in 1939, when Swiss Chemist Paul Muller developed DDT or later, in 1948, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Sweden. Recently, Sweden became the first nation in the world to ban use of the chemical...
Hussein is aptly cast as the Arab spokesman to the West. By being forced to yield Arab Jerusalem and the West Bank, his nation lost proportionately more than other Arab nations in the war; accordingly, he stands to gain more by a settlement. He also needs that settlement most. The popularity he enjoyed two years ago is ebbing to such a degree that he reportedly has threatened abdication. In recent months, a host of unsavory rumors have sprung up about the King's financial dealings and his personal life. True or not, most Jordanians believe them. Undermined by such...
...meeting with Nixon: "President Nixon appears to be determined to exert more pressure on the Israelis than was perhaps true of previous administrations. He wants peace in the Middle East that is just for all sides, and you cannot get it if you blindly support one nation over the others...