Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anger swept The Netherlands last week after terrorists seized more than 150 hostages in an effort to force the Dutch government to accept their revolutionary demands. The hostages included 55 passengers of an express train on the Utrecht-Groningen line and-to the particular fury and fear of the nation-105 children and five primary school teachers from the village of Bovensmilde. For four emotion-filled days, the children were held inside their school. Then, because most of them seemed to have fallen victim to a stomach virus, they were unexpectedly released. But the terrorists still held the school...
...plain gray suit who rose in response to President James Bryant Conant's swift and eloquent citation: "An American to whom freedom owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a soldier and statesman whose ability and character brook only one comparison in the history of the nation...
Marshall's words that day in June 1947 not only gave desperate Europe a reason to hope but also snatched the initiative in the cold war away from Russia. Marshall wrought a revolutionary departure in American foreign policy, wrenching the nation out of an isolationist disposition that tracked back to George Washington. The European recovery plan that bore Marshall's name-Harry Truman insisted it be so titled-set the stage for the primary defense arrangements in use today by the Atlantic community. Without the economic and political base created by the Marshall Plan, NATO could not have...
Beyond doubt the American temper is strikingly different today from what it was then. After World War II, the nation enjoyed an almost cocky belief that it could do anything - and everything. Had not the U.S. just saved civilization? Did not the U.S. own the Bomb? Most Americans were eager to proclaim their nation the greatest. And they turned out to be perfectly willing to prove it - once they had been asked to. Americans of Marshall's day, of course, also had trust in their Government - and a certitude about their power to prevail that had not been crumpled...
...loss of trust and certainty are major differences in post-Watergate America. The nation also, more than in the past, nurses cynical doubts about the Government's capacity to solve any social problems - those at home or abroad. More over, Americans of 1977 often seem confused, in the words of one scholar, "as to where and in what way American power and intelligence can be most usefully applied." The words are those of a man who happened to direct the Marshall Plan in Europe in 1950-51 - Professor Milton Katz, now director of international legal studies at Harvard...