Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before each acceleration of the U.S. military effort in Viet Nam over the past 30 months, Lyndon Johnson has painstakingly reviewed the progress of the war and the prospects for peace. Last week, dissatisfied with the conflict's grindingly slow pace, the President was in the midst of yet another reappraisal. The choice, as the White House sees it, is either to maintain pressure on the Communists at roughly the present level or increase the punishment significantly in the next few months...
...states can indeed do much more than they are now doing, but any real hope for progress-as the Governors' statement recognized-still lies with the Federal Government, which alone has resources sufficient for the task. Despite a flurry of imaginative proposals from both sides of the aisle, there was little hope that Congress-dominated by its aging, rural-oriented committee chairmen-would open up those resources without a strong push from the electorate. Yet the man in the best position to stir the American conscience, the President, seemed unusually phlegmatic about the urban crisis...
...impurity), in Japanese oshoku (dirty job), and to the Pakistanis, it is ooper ki admani (income from above). Every Oriental language has its own phrase for corruption-and in every tongue the words are unpleasantly familiar. All around the rim of mainland China, many Asian nations are making notable progress, but the greatest obstacle remains the furtive hand in the till, the kickback artist, the bagman, the specialist in "squeeze." Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, who has more than his share of corruption to bog him down at home, is convinced that "we must change a whole way of life...
...will linger for some time to come, though perhaps not with the ripe impact achieved by an independent legislator in South Korea's National Assembly, when he dumped a can of human excrement over a row of Cabinet ministers he accused of letting smugglers operate in the country. Progress is needed on every front-social, economic, political. Education is an imperative, for a well-informed electorate will hold to closer account the officials of a democratic government. And opposition parties must be encouraged so that voters will have a meaningful alternative to an administration corrupted by long years...
Once more he repeated his oft-heard theme that only Charles de Gaulle can lead France to "independence, progress and peace." His opposition to the U.S., to the war in Viet Nam and to British entry into the Common Market, he explained, is all "appropriately French." He applied the same phrase to the curiously irresponsible call for a "Free Quebec" that he issued during last month's state visit to Canada...