Word: rebuilders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clearly to frighten the rest of the Montagnards from seeking haven in government towns like Dak Son. But in this case, Communist terrorism had clearly overshot its mark. Chanting and weeping as they buried their dead, the Montagnard survivors resolved to stay in Dak Son and rebuild the hamlet. More than 100 men immediately volunteered for irregular-force training and a chance to defend Dak Son should the men with "the guns that shoot fire" ever show up again...
...East Germans erected a prototype at an army camp, rounded up some of the country's best athletes and let them try to cross the barriers without interference. None could makeit. Ulbricht has already completed nearly a third of what he calls his "modern border," hopes to rebuild the entire 99.5-mile ring around West Berlin...
...government still has a solid hard currency reserve of $300 million and has been promised $112 million a year to rebuild its economy by oil-rich Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Libya. So far, there are no plans for rebuilding. "There will be no major development of this economy until our territory is returned," says Minister Nusseibeh. "How can we plan intelligently when we don't know how big Jordan will be?" All of Jordan is thus at a standstill, waiting and hoping that some sort of political settlement can be reached with Israel for the return of the West...
...Boston public schools are, and has resolved to make them better. White has shown a sympathy for the problems of racial minorities with a series of sensible position papers asking for neighborhood social service centers and similar improvements. He has the confidence of the financial community which has helped rebuild Boston and whose help the city will have to enlist in taking on urban problems that still remain...
...panaceas. Many agree with Buckley that initiative in social progress lies as much with local government as with federal. Like him, they are unhappy with the massive dislocations caused by such federal superprograms as highway construction and urban renewal. When Bobby Kennedy recently urged private industry to help rebuild the ghettos, Buckley congratulated him for a "statement so sensible that it made recommendations I made three years ago." Buckley, in fact, is a bit chagrined that it is liberal Democrats and not conservative Republicans who have been making some dramatic proposals along conservative lines. "The other side," he told Richard...