Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also happy to report that General Westmoreland has escaped Saigon safely to a windowless command center on Formosa where, incidentally, Chiang Kai-shek has offered 33,000 Nationalist Chinese troops for use in Vietnam...
...many ways, a self-fulfilling prophecy. Our funds and personnel are channelled into war and science, and are channelled away from economics, psychology, history, and international relations. The potential role of this country as a force with wealth and manpower which could be devoted to aiding the indepedent, nationalist development of the underdeveloped world appears to be a role which is notbeing fulfilled. Nor does it seem that it will be fulfilled in the near future because this college generation is not able to develop academically the methods to meet the problems of the future, but is being forced...
...insulted, Witherspoon finally landed work with the telephone company and an apartment in a good neighborhood. Though he and his wife are rarely at home in the evenings (they work), white neighbors are already complaining about "too much noise between 6 and 9." Witherspoon was approached by Black Nationalist Ron Karenga's boys shortly after his return (he holds a karate black belt), but turned down the invitation to join the revolution. Now he is not so sure. "Sometimes I feel it was all for nothing," he says of Viet Nam. "You know, we go over there and tell...
Died. Vincent Massey, 80, Actor Raymond's elder brother, longtime Canadian diplomat and Governor-General from 1952 to 1959; of pneumonia; in London. A devoted nationalist in a divided land searching for identity, Massey spent a lifetime at home and abroad championing the idea of Canada's "Canadianness"-a nation distinct from its U.S. good neighbor and Franco-British forefathers. In that cause, he gave an added dimension to the largely ceremonial office of Governor-General, using every ribbon-cutting, banquet, trip and state function to insist that "what we do should have a Canadian character. Nobody looks...
...outside world is as old as the Chinese sense of superiority. As a result, in China's foreign policy, the nation's pride is always in conflict with its innate pragmatism. It should be no surprise, Bloodworm says, that a Chinese Communist still feels closer to a Nationalist Chinese than to a foreign Communist. And sooner or later, Bloodworth suggests, Peking and Taiwan will reach some sort of accommodation, discovering that they have not been "really enemies but just bad friends...