Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Merely getting in and out of Biafra is a dangerous and doubtful proposition. The irregular airlift from Lisbon flies through Nigerian antiaircraft fire to reach a makeshift airstrip that is only open at night. When correspondents finally manage to get in, they are shuttled off to quarters in the Progress Hotel in Aba, the country's provisional capital. When they are not in the field, they face the hazards of the Progress menu. This consists of yams-fried for breakfast, boiled for lunch, baked for dinner...
...Tonight I do not promise the millennium in the morning. I don't promise that we can eradicate poverty and end discrimination in the space of four or even eight years. But I do promise action. And a new policy for peace abroad, a new policy for peace and progress and justice at home...
...they "don't want to be a colony." Federal antipoverty efforts have not helped at all: "We have reaped from these programs an ugly harvest of frustrations, violence and failure." Therefore, urged Nixon, the Government must use its powers to "enlist in this battle the greatest engine of progress ever developed in the history of man: American private enterprise...
...complex and overwhelming are the problems confronting South Viet Nam that the nation's progress must be judged in terms of effort rather than achievement. By that arbitrary measure, Thieu's government has performed with markedly more distinction than its predecessors. Admittedly it has not achieved dramatic results in the dual task of fighting a war and building a nation. But, as its first year in office draws to a close, the government deserves some good marks for trying...
...tumultuous 27-month existence. The alternating current is provided, of course, by Mao Tse-tung. His heart is with the radicals, who advocate violence to cleanse conservatism from China, but his head must sometimes nod to the moderates, who say that stability is needed before the revolution can make progress. Last week a set of new directives from Peking made it clear that Mao has decided, at least for now, on head over heart...