Word: near
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limited opportunities of the vice-presidency, Agnew, at 51, has displayed small capacity for development. Ten years ago, he was president of the P.T.A. in Loch Raven village near Baltimore. Five years ago, he was the Baltimore county executive, presiding over a horseshoe-shaped suburban community that knew little of the urban agonies on which he is now supposedly an Administration expert. Today, as Vice President, he retains his earlier prejudices...
...that U.S. airpower and artillery support could be withdrawn for a long time thereafter. U.S. military men also pointed out that the South Vietnamese army (ARVN) has not yet proved itself in heavy combat. Last week, when North Vietnamese regulars inflicted heavy losses on ARVN units in a battle near Due Lap, a fortified strongpoint 131 miles northeast of Saigon, U.S. authorities hustled American correspondents, including TIME's Burton Pines, away from the scene. Conceded one American commander: "They are fighting hard, but not with exceptional skill...
...that talk once again might turn into violence placed added urgency on Soviet-American attempts to work out a Middle East blueprint for peace. As a result of discussions between Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco, the two nations last week were reportedly near agreement on peace terms. The U.S. is said to have conceded that Israel must return to the border with Egypt that existed before the 1967 war. Russia and the U.S. were also said to have agreed that Israel must accept the return of Palestinian refugees on a quota basis...
...unemployment, illiteracy and injustice, violence and disorder are putting heavy pressures on governments throughout the hemisphere, and that everywhere "aspirations are outstripping resources and accomplishments." As a result, a fertile soil is being created for those who hope to exploit the southern continent's troubles. In the near future, the report predicts, Latin America will be beset by growing instability and an increased tendency to seek radical and authoritarian solutions. Rockefeller also warns that vociferous Latin American nationalism finds a tempting, natural target in the U.S., "since it looms so large in the lives of other nations." Against...
...overgrown slum; the grandeur of Rome was overshadowed by its ramshackle ghettos, crime rate and traffic jams. Sanitation was so bad in the Paris of Louis XIV that two miles from the city's gates a traveler's nose would tell him that he was drawing near. Scarcely anyone today needs to be told about how awful life is in nerve-jangling New York City, which resembles a mismanaged ant heap rather than a community fit for human habitation...