Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policy of good partners,' " the initial reaction from Latin America was distinctly mixed. Said former Argentine President Arturo Illia, who was deposed by the military in 1966: "It is a concrete diagnosis, but not a cure. The situation is more serious than is expressed by Nixon." Brazilian Economist Roberto Campos was pleased with Nixon's approach, which was less condescending than past U.S. attitudes. "The U.S. today is much less certain that it understands the realities of life in Latin America," said Campos. "That is a healthy recognition." More characteristic, however, was the complaint aired by the Chilean...
...high Administration spokesman: "the answer is no-not disengagement, but re-engagement." Nor would the new policy imply economic isolation, he added. "What it does mean is that we would like to dispel the myth that the U.S. is the instant messiah for miracles." The question remains whether Nixon's proposed partnership asks enough of the partners -either the Latin American lands or, for that matter, the U.S. itself...
...emergency" that the panel majority agreed would justify such work? An even more fundamental question is whether the labs can raise enough money for domestic and social-research projects to shift significantly away from military work. Administrators agree that the money will have to come from Washington. With the Nixon Administration in a budget-cutting mood, there are grounds for doubt that it will be available...
...written to everybody about smog," she continues. "First I wrote my representatives; then I wrote the county supervisors and I wrote to Lyndon Johnson; and then I read where Nixon was gonna declare war on pollution, so I wrote him. I wrote Ronald Reagan and I wrote Mayor Yorty. I wrote the airlines, the car manufacturers and J. Edgar Hoover. Sometimes I picket. We had a couple of breathe-ins downtown; we wore health masks into the county supervisors' offices. There isn't much time left. We make more smog, inside our houses, you know, from all those jet cans...
Marijuana? "It will be legalized. It has to be, once Nixon reduces the penalty. Without the motivation of a stiff penalty, the law becomes impossible to enforce, like a law against scratching your nose in your own house...