Word: present
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knock on Wood. As if bent on self-destruction, man has made his water and air poisonous. Highways, airways and commuter railways have become choked to the suffocation point. The problems of the present may be deferrable, those of the future soluble. But by whom? Americans have traditionally sacrificed to educate their young and believed in the next generation's competence to settle a troubled world. Today that assumption is widely questioned. Education in its Latin origin means to bring up, but on American campuses recently, extremists have often made the process seem more like a bringing down...
Next time around Reddin may be involved in the race more directly. While he thought about running this year, he has confided to friends, he decided the notion was "too presumptuous"-for the present. After four years as KTLA's chief pontificator, Reddin, now only 52, may find the idea modest enough...
...Europeans have failed to assume the proper share of their own defense. Most of NATO's European partners spend less than 6% of their gross national products on defense, v. the U.S.'s 10%. One consequence is that NATO has never met its defense goals. At present, NATO combat-ready troops, whose divisions are below full strength, are outmanned by Warsaw Pact forces along the Central European front...
...present, the Nationalists as well as the Communists reject what is known as the "two-China" solution, in which each of them is recognized for what it is: the ruler of Taiwan on the one hand, and of mainland China on the other. Each insists that the other must be regarded as fraudulent. Thus, Taiwan will undoubtedly break relations with Ottawa if the Canadians recognize Peking. To make certain that Taiwan's hard line is still clearly understood everywhere, the congress last week concluded with a warning that the Kuomintang and the Taiwan government "resolutely oppose any moves that...
Formidable Dollars. If there is not, by a deadline that is now set at Aug. 6 (at which time the Ministry of Energy and Mines must have acted on the IPC appeal), the U.S. may go ahead and invoke the amendment. At the present time, though, the Yanqui dollar has begun to look like a more formidable weapon. U.S. banks normally underpin Peruvian industry and trade with about $150 million in loans; these funds have been reduced sharply since the expropriation arguments began. Another potential $700 million in U.S. private investment in Peru, mostly in copper mining, is being held...