Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history: wars are not avoided by appeasement. We failed to stand firm in Eastern Europe, China and Cuba, and Communism has continued its advance. In Viet Nam it would be far better to face the enemy now rather than later, when he may be able to threaten us with nuclear arms. We are engaged in mortal combat with a despicable, determined and desperate foe, and should neither give nor seek quarter...
Both Old & Young. The report contends that the election "was genuinely dominated by issues rather than by social stratification or by personality," cites "nuclear responsibility" and "social welfare legislation" as the decisive issues in addition to civil rights. "Goldwater's positions on national issues, clearly documented in his past statements and publications, proved to be an insurmountable obstacle to his campaign ever getting off the ground...
...training ship. In numbers of planes-2,900-Red China boasts the world's third largest air force, but it would not last long in combat, since the planes are largely Russian castoffs, and the air arm is handicapped by shortages of fuel and spare parts. As for nuclear potential, the Communists exploded a crude device last fall, and may be ready to try another test blast. But a sophisticated weapon-and the means of delivering it-is years away...
...party domination was bad for Canada, the persuasive prairie lawyer led his party to a surprising victory in 1957, breaking 22 years of Liberal rule. Yet in six years as Prime Minister he managed to get himself into a series of unnecessarily bitter squabbles with the U.S. over nuclear defense commitments, failed to fire up Canada's economy, and proved to be an imperious, eccentric administrator whose policies seemed to shift with the wind over Ottawa...
...conservative New York Daily News viewed the events in Viet Nam quite differently: "Why not stage repeated bombing raids on all North Viet Nam's war-supply depots and routes known to us; and why not wreck Red China's nuclear-arms facilities?" As the week wore on, the News proposed for good measure that the U.S. give "Chiang Kai-shek convoy and air help for his long-planned invasion of mainland China...