Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firmness on this point was largely responsible for freezing the Paris negotiations. According to this theory, as long as Ho was on the scene ?healthy or ill?it was impossible for other leaders to make a move toward breaking the deadlock. There has been a lack of progress, in fact, ever since Chief North Vietnamese Strategist Le Due Tho abruptly left Paris last July. Several Washington officials now believe that he may have been called home because Ho had suddenly begun to fail. These officials also believe it was more than coincidental that last week, only hours before Hanoi...
...legacy, however impressive in many respects, plainly has its shortcomings. North Viet Nam is a much more egalitarian society today than it was when the "republic" was proclaimed 24 years ago, but politically as well as economically, progress has been scant. Writers and artists are limited by political requirements; a brief attempt at liberalization in the late '50s, patterned after Mao's short-lived campaign to "let 100 flowers bloom," uncovered so much resentment that repression was reinstituted almost immediately. Ho, however, was never blamed for repression: skillfully, he divorced himself in the public mind from that harsh entity known...
...attention of the successors on "initiatives from abroad." At the very least, he said, "it is always possible that some faction will argue that a positive response ought to be made." In Paris, Professor Philippe Devillers, a longtime specialist on Viet Nam, warned that the Paris negotiations would not progress "until the U.S. has accepted the principle of the total withdrawal of troops." Once this word is given, Devillers reasoned, "you unjam the negotiations and everything can be negotiated." He added, however, that the U.S. should act soon: "Now is the crucial moment. If they [the Americans] make no gesture...
From the moment the campaign be gan in May, it was clear that only two of the original 15 registered parties had a chance. One was the Progress Party headed by Busia, 55, a sociology professor who spent much of the Nkrumah era in voluntary exile. The other was the National Alliance of Liberals (N.A.L.), led by Komla A. Gbedemah, 56, who was Nkrumah's Finance Minister until the Redeemer turned against him and forced him into exile in 1961. Sophisticated poll watchers expected a close battle. Not the local soothsayers; Busia's first name, after all, means...
Last week 202 specialists in half a dozen sciences met at the University of Rhode Island for a roundup conference on the progress and problems connected with mining the seas for drugs. Almost to a man, they complained of lack of funds-a shortage intensified by recent cutbacks in governmental grants-and proclaimed their support of Senator Warren Magnuson's bill to set up a National Institute of Marine Medicine and Pharmacology. In speech after speech they pointed out that the vast majority of all known forms of animal life are found in the sea, which they expect...