Word: north
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case of the "Flying Pueblo" there is only one alternative. Retaliate! The next time a North Korean spy plane comes to within 100 miles of America's shores, shoot it down...
...This is a great time for feminists. For years, some people have said that the President of the United States ought to be a woman. Now the North Koreans have succeeded in turning him into...
...even before De Gaulle fell last week, the Franco-American freeze was thawing. The U.S. bombing halt in North Viet Nam, coupled with the opening of peace talks in Paris, eased one major cause of tension. De Gaulle's own position lost some of its majesty, both within and outside France, after the student riots a year ago and the autumn monetary crisis that almost forced devaluation of the franc. De Gaulle had courted the Soviet Union during a triumphal tour in 1966 and had implicitly excluded the U.S. from his often-stated vision of a Europe "united from...
Everett, an experienced climber and the first American to scale the four major peaks of North America, had one serious gap in his expertise: he had never climbed in the Himalayas. Neither had the other U.S. members of his team, though all were skilled climbers. Everett was determined to scale Dhaulagiri I by its knifelike southeast ridge, a route never before attempted. He was racing a deadline: because the arrival of monsoon rains in early June would make further climbing immensely risky, the climb had to be accomplished in April and May. The team gathered in Katmandu early last month...
...immediately workable, they say, was quickly done without regard to moral and political consequences. Noam Chomsky, a leading war dissenter, has lambasted such thinking in his acute if intemperate book, American Power and the New Mandarins. Chomsky cites one Far East expert who assured a congressional committee that the North Vietnamese "would be perfectly happy to be bombed to be free." Another scholar proposed that the U.S. tame China by buying up all surplus Canadian and Australian wheat. As he saw it, the resulting Chinese famine would be "only incidental" to the desired collapse of the Communists...