Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congratulate you on a comprehensive, well-balanced cover story on the India-Pakistan war [Sept. 17]. India maintains that the 1947 invasion of Kashmir by tribesmen from Pakistan's northwest frontier was the initial provocation, but you correctly state that a revolt was already in progress in the disputed state Filming for the MARCH OF TIME in India then, I was told of this by the man who led the revolt, Sardar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Free Kashmir...
Goodwin, 33, a Kennedy Administration holdover, is a versatile intellectual and idea man who made the transition from Kennedy-style rhetoric to the homelier L.B.J. brand with no apparent strain. It was Goodwin who devised the essential idea for Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, and it was he who first dropped the phrase Great Society into an L.B.J. speech-and into the American vernacular. He accepted a $15,000 fellowship at Wesleyan University's Center for Advanced Studies, where he plans to write under his own name after years of ghosting for two Presidents...
...ambushes for Colonel Mike Hoare's mercenary force. Turks and Greeks on Cyprus, Indonesians and Malays in the Malacca Straits, Portuguese and Angolans in West Africa, OAS troops and Dominicans in Santo Domingo -all kept their powder dry and their gunsights blackened Roughly speaking, ten wars are in progress throughout the world this week. They range from petty conflicts in which the strategic weapon is a poisoned arrow to major air raids in which jet B-52s bomb jungle hideaways. As a leading French strategist on the Quai d'Orsay puts it: "There is no longer such...
Destroyed Myth. The jubilant Indian press last week printed the army's claim to have already destroyed 284 U.S.-built Patton tanks, which had never before been battle-tested. The progress of the war, crowed the Indian Express, "destroys much of the myth of the meek and mild Hindus as it has the legend of the superiority of the American-built and American-supplied Patton tanks and Sabre jets...
...also hoped to keep some kind of contact with Pakistan, whose President last week was urging the U.S. to use its "considerable influence" to seek a settlement. The U.S. could only repeat its intention of continuing to work through the United Nations. But Secretary-General U Thant had little progress to report...