Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military in many years. He must manage America's withdrawal from Viet Nam in such a way that an unsatisfactory war does not turn into a debacle. He must find ways to reduce sharply military spending in a time of rising costs at home, continuing challenges to U.S. power abroad, and changing definitions of America's role in the world. He must shake up a Pentagon grown sluggish and wasteful. And he must do it all under the aroused and hostile scrutiny of a Congress and public now convinced that for too long the generals and the admirals have...
Despite his not having wanted the secretaryship, he is enjoying himself after seven months on the job. The work is hard and less pleasant than a congressional leader's, but the power is great. "I like to be picked...
...military transportation, such as the C-5A aircraft and fast supply vessels, give the U.S. increased capability for keeping a larger part of its forces at home while still being able to react quickly to an overseas emergency. When President Nixon talks about maintaining the U.S. as a Pacific power, most strategists translate that to mean air and sea rather than ground forces...
...nothing to calm those fears. Meeting at its heavily guarded Prague headquarters last week, it announced a number of repressive new decrees. One prescribed jail sentences of up to three months for anyone who defames a Czechoslovak leader or fails to obey police orders. Another gives the government power to fire teachers who fail to instruct their pupils in accordance with the principles of Socialist society...
...part, the severity of the crackdown is a reflection of the intensity of a power struggle that pits Husák against Lubomir Strougal, 44, the deputy party leader, who has recently emerged as the No. 2 man in the country's hierarchy. Though demonstrators scrawled the words HUSÁK-RUSÁK (Husák the Russian) on walls, the fact is that the Russians do not entirely trust Husák. He is in an unenviable position: rejected by the reformers because he replaced Dubček, disliked by the Czech majority because...