Word: rebuilder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commitment of 7,100 troops to Viet Nam; indeed, in his first act last week, McMahon named Gorton as his Defense Minister. At home he must deal with an increasingly familiar phenomenon-persistent inflation (7.6% last year) combined with a sluggish economy. But his immediate job is to rebuild the party before the 1972 elections, when the Liberals must face a revived Labor Party under the polished leadership of Edward Gough Whitlam...
...help rebuild it, she had silicone injections to fill out her cheeks and plastic surgery that lifted her upper eyelids but did nothing for her spirit. Hypnosis, yoga, cell implants and love affairs helped her morale, but by the end of one liaison Luciana realized, "I had really become very plain looking-almost nothing on my face, nothing on my nails, the most casual clothes." After another year during which she was "so bored I used to remove the hairs from my legs, one by one, with tweezers," Luciana went back to Rome to face facts and her mirror: beauty...
...future of Southern politics. He has little faith in the effects that increased black voter registration will have ("They go from 5 per cent of the electorate to 34 per cent, and then the whites win by 66 per cent instead of 95 per cent.") or of efforts to rebuild the Democratic Party...
...advance was kept to a cautious crawl for several reasons. Southeastern Cambodia is flat farmland; the Laotian panhandle is a tangle of dense, triple-canopy jungle. ARVN troops practically had to rebuild the old French Route 9 as they went, and they stopped frequently to set up protective fire bases and send out patrols for as much as six miles to the north and south to guard their flanks. Their vital link to South Viet Nam's Quang Tri province-a force of some 600 U.S. helicopters-was repeatedly socked in by bad weather...
...native clergy and technical help that persuades most Third World leaders to accept missionaries from Europe and North America, though some leaders attach special provisos to their invitations. Under the bootstrap socialism of Tanzania, President Julius Nyerere, a Roman Catholic, has required the missionaries to pitch in to rebuild the society. On a quiet visit to the U.S. recently, Nyerere slipped up to Maryknoll headquarters near New York City to lecture nuns on the role of missions in developing countries. One of Nyerere's suggestions, already adopted by missionaries in some areas, is that educational and medical services should...