Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...However, he said pointedly, "it should use that 10% or 20% to the hilt." He defined Canada's position as "one of interrogation." For his part, Nixon was anxious to warm the climate between neighbors that had cooled under two previous Administrations. But he also felt compelled to press tactfully for U.S. defensive security both in this hemisphere and in Europe. The President was persuasive in contending that the ABM system's flexibility and slow timetable would not escalate the arms race. Trudeau, speaking to newsmen at the Canadian embassy, held to his early reservations and objected...
...membership of the N.A.A.C.P., has lost more ground than any other leader, with the decline of integration as the principal issue and the loss of the N.A.A.C.P.'s traditional adversary role. To be sure, the constituencies of older Negro activists are underestimated, especially in a press that publicizes the shocking more often than quiet accomplishment. "Some leaders," says Young, "are followed by seven Negroes and 70 screaming reporters." On the other hand, if many blacks remain personally conservative, they also welcome flamboyant gestures. "Adam Clayton Powell is the vicar for the man who always wants to spit...
...British-style parliamentary government to be elected by universal suffrage around the turn of the year. Having won that much, both East and West Pakistani politicians, though still as divided among themselves as when Ayub once dismissed them as "five cats tied by their tails," were emboldened to press on. Not wanting to wait for the promised elections, they demanded satisfaction of other grievances immediately. So did the mobs in the streets: in East Pakistan, two weeks of vigilante murders, mostly of lower officials in the Ayub regime, cost more than 200 lives, and in the West hundreds of factories...
...cops against charges that they had beaten up reporters during the Democratic National Convention. Although some Chicago editors had treated the police violence gingerly all along, the stand by Jack Mabley, associate editor of Chicago's American, disregarded any sympathy for the abused newsmen and started another caustic press controversy...
...From radar to rocketry, we have had to rely on other societies" etc., etc. Sarcasm betrays him into rhetorical flourishes: Lyndon Johnson is "the Great Khan at Washington"; objection to John O'Hara's handling of sex is archly laid to the "Good Gray Geese of the press...