Word: neighbored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Common Market. This in turn led some Central American businessmen, worried about superior competition from what they refer to as the "Colossus of the North," to grumble about Mexico's "imperialistic" intentions-precisely as generations of Mexican anti-gringos have fretted in the shadow of Mexico's neighbor across the Rio Grande. To soothe their fears, Díaz Ordaz specifically promised no economic or political interference. Said he crisply: "Mexico does not seek for other nations what it is not disposed to accept for itself...
Cheering Crowds. When Díaz Ordaz, a conservative onetime backlands attorney, took office a year ago, he decided to initiate a new good-neighbor policy. Last week's state visit, which took him first to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and continues this week in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, was a concrete result. His first communique, issued jointly with the Guatemalans, showed what he had in mind...
...feat "unparalleled in the history of the Senate." Her only declared opposition so far in Maine comes from a Democratic state representative named Plato Truman. If Mrs. Smith can lick that combination, she will automatically become the ranking Republican on the powerful Armed Services Committee, now that Massachusetts Neighbor Leverett Saltonstall is retiring...
...more copper than is being mined. And as it has in many other fields (see U.S. BUSINESS), the Viet Nam war has been making additional demands on the already strained copper supply. The supply is also being threatened by strikes in Chile, the possibility that Rhodesia will cut off neighbor Zambia's supply routes and, as ever, the unsure state of Congo politics. Such a sellers' market was too much to resist for Chile, Zambia and the Congo, all of whose developing economies are largely based on the metal...
...experience produced Thoreau's best-known essay, originally entitled Resistance to Civil Government. It was indifferently received during his lifetime, and it did not get its more familiar name, Civil Disobedience, until after his death. Emerson, Thoreau's mentor and neighbor, found his friend's reaction "mean and skulking and in bad taste" and later wrote in his journal: "The State is a poor cow who does well by you-do not grudge...