Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world situation has changed dramatically, and American involvement in Viet Nam can and must change with it." Since the major U.S. Viet Nam buildup began in 1965, the U.S.S.R. and China have grown more hostile toward each other; Communist-courting Sukarno has been turned out of power in Indonesia; other Asian nations have made great economic gains. The region is now better able to withstand a weakened Communist challenge...
From a purely military standpoint, chemical and biological weapons have unique capabilities. They can be dispersed locally by hand grenades and land mines, or over broad areas with artillery shells, mortar rounds, bombs, airborne aerosols or even missiles like the Army's Sergeant. They constitute great offensive power that can be produced at relatively low cost. They are "search" weapons that seek out the enemy, even in his deepest bunkers, without destroying buildings or installations. In addition to those designed to kill, some agents can be used merely to disable...
...campaign, he made an open bid to gain a measure of independence from his party. In an effort to enlist the support of non-Gaullist parties, Pompidou promised to make what he called "openings" in domestic and foreign policy. The Gaullists fear that those openings might erode their power. Some of them are worried that Pompidou might bring too many outsiders into his Cabinet, while others, notably former Justice Minister René Capitant, are fretting that Pompidou will not pursue De Gaulle's social schemes, such as worker participation in management...
...cancer. Love Machine lacks Valley's primitive vigor but equals its obsession with pathology: leukemia, gall-bladder trouble, heart disease, neurasthenia and nymphomania play important roles. One man is terrified of losing his genitalia; another surrenders them gladly in order to become a woman. The central character, a power-mad television executive with a superhuman capacity for vodka and coitus, is mysteriously incapable of love and marriage. The explanation is only a cut above those delivered in Hollywood psychodramas of the 1940s in which a white-coated mental hygienist resolved the plot with a five-minute dissertation...
...keeps being asked to commit himself emotionally. Almost by reflex, he tries to reach his children, but his gestures end in general embarrassment. Though he loves his wife, he can think of nothing appropriate that might convey that fact except a new car and some shares of Kansas City Power & Light. Determined to retain his dignity, he moves carefully through the sunny meadow of middle-class affluence as through a dangerous minefield...