Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pose had a certain drama about it. But the noisy dispute over a site where American and North Vietnamese negotiators could meet for preliminary talks recalled what the late John Foster Dulles said in 1954 about negotiating with Asian Communists: "Progress is always slow and seldom spectacular...
...talks with South Korea's President Chung Hee Park, who has 52,000 troops in Viet Nam, and with top U.S. Pacific commanders. While the emphasis there is likely to be on the fighting, Johnson is well aware that his countrymen will be looking for some signs of progress on the diplomatic front...
...field. The offenses range from chicken thievery to rape to the indiscriminate use of artillery. Corruption has long been a way of life, with tribute exacted all along the chain of command until the squeeze reaches the peasant at the bottom. Again, only since Tet can Abrams count much progress: 18 province chiefs and two corps commanders have been fired, several dozen officers arrested and tried for corruption...
Pindling has also more than doubled government spending on education ($10.6 million this year) and has commissioned a long-range economic plan by Puerto Rican Consultant Teodoro Moscoso, the guiding hand behind Puerto Rico's "Operation Bootstrap" and a key organizer of the Alliance for Progress. Another Pindling achievement was ordering salaries for legislative and Cabinet members, thus eliminating the old system of fat "consultant's fees"-really payoffs and bribes-that flourished among the United Bahamian Party's government officials (TIME, Sept...
Since that time, however, several problems have beset the Union. Most important has been the play of events themselves. McCarthy's unexpected success in New Hampshire, Kennedy's entry into the presidential race, Johnson's withdrawal, and the apparent progress of peace talks with Hanoi have led many people to believe that although the fighting may drag on, the war is effectively over...