Word: protractedness
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Synthesis. The two separate aims paper over a protracted debate between Attorney General John Mitchell and Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney. Romney urged an activist Administration role, calling for the development of uniform procedures to assure the construction of low-income housing in the suburbs and urging federal...
No Room. Faced with these problems, the Indian government calls the refugees "evacuees" or "escapees" and hopes for their return to their homeland. "Being a poor country ourselves," Mrs. Gandhi told refugees at a camp in eastern India, "we cannot afford to keep you here forever, even if we wished...
Convincing Hanoi. But Laos is only a symptom of Nixon's larger problem. Time may, as the White House believes, work to the allies' benefit in Viet Nam, but it works against the Administration at home. Nixon's formula for U.S. withdrawal is inherently schizophrenic-widening the...
Demure Deflowering. Candice is generally hailed as heiress apparent to Grace Kelly, but the princess role does not quite fit. Says she: "Basically I'm the klutz who makes a terrific entrance to the party and then trips and falls and walks around with food in her hair. That...
THE Middle East war is older than many of the soldiers who fight it; yet in the 22 years since the fighting began over the creation of Israel, neither Israelis, Arabs nor well-meaning outsiders have been able to work out a lasting settlement. Against this discouraging background of aborted...