Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Families Are Frantic With each hint of progress in the Viet Nam negotiations, there comes a special quickening of hope for several thousand Americans, the families of 1,600 military men missing or imprisoned in Southeast Asia. For them, the maneuverings of international diplomacy-be they new proposals from the North Vietnamese or the prospect of a peace-making presidential visit to China -are translated into a single, very personal reality: the fate of a husband, son, father or brother...
...AFTER THE FIGHTING ENDS. "If we want to continue to fight, we will have to have economic, social and political progress as well . . . When the war is over, we will need the aid of the U.S. and other friendly countries. Our resources will be exhausted. Then we will face our greatest problem, and I hope the Americans will help. But whatever aid comes in should not be directed by the Americans. If it is, we would appear as a lackey in the world's eyes." IF THIEU IS REELECTED. "We cannot rule out the possibility of a coup. After...
...decision, partly because it sees the Mid dle East power balance differently from the Israelis, partly because it considers the Phantoms a useful lever for moving Israel into a Suez Canal agreement. The Phantom decision is still, so to speak, up in the air, but Jerusalem hopes for some progress when Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco makes a scheduled visit this week. "We don't expect Sisco to come flying over in a flotilla of Phantoms," says a government official. "But we do hope that he will come with words of encouragement...
...ANDES: A NATIONALIST SURGE In the early 1960s, there was hope that the Alliance for Progress would help to solve the perennial problems of poverty and political instability in Latin America. But there was a shortage of funds-and of commitment-on both sides. In 1969, President Nixon all but declared that the Alliance was dead...
...Most Ambitious Ever. Velasco, an ordinary soldier who rose through the ranks to become a general, complains bitterly about the lack of U.S. support. "Washington practically demanded that the Latin American nations put land-reform programs into effect as a condition for Alliance for Progress aid," said the President. "Now that our revolution is really trying to make land reform work, not one American dollar has been lent to help us finance...