Word: primed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fields of security and foreign affairs, Nixon was moving to make good his aim of restoring the National Security Council as the prime policymaking body. His first important post-Inauguration meeting was with the N.S.C. and its principal advisers: Presidential Assistant Henry Kissinger, General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Richard Helms, who is being retained as director of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...Belfast -have drawn enough Irish temper from both sides to make "Belfast confetti" a second name for paving stones. During the past five months, the bitterness has erupted almost weekly in a wave of demonstrations, street riots and vigilantism. The unrest has presented the country's moderate Prime Minister, Captain Terence O'Neill, with his toughest problem and most serious political challenge in six years...
...some truth in the complaint by the Times of London that the conference had "discussed almost everything, but had settled almost nothing," the meeting nonetheless had its value. Differences were aired in open, reasonable discussion, and that, as Wilson said, "is what the Commonwealth is all about." Added the Prime Minister: "I don't know anywhere else where 24 heads of government and four deputies could talk to each other for ten days and then make plans to meet the following year again...
...When his wife told a Tokyo reporter last month that he used to consort with geishas, beat her, and "smash things," Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato kept a discreet and diplomatic silence. The Premier was more talkative at his year-end bash for the press. "Mr. Prime Minister," asked one reporter, "did you beat your wife?" Certainly, Sato answered. Do you still beat her? "No, I don't," he replied. "Times have changed, haven't they?" Or have they? When Sato asked: "Do you fellows beat your wives?" fully half the newsmen answered...
...reporter asked whether Sato really did party it up with geishas. "Oh, yes," smiled Sato. "We wanted to show the older generation that having a good time with a geisha was not their monopoly. Too bad prices are so high nowadays." ∙∙∙ Canada's swinging Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has never been one to shun the public eye. So when he went to London for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference, he took along a planeload of newsmen. Then reporters got Divorcee Eva Rittinghausen to gush after a date with the P.M., "it was love at first...