Word: reconstructionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Jack" Gowon, 39, turned his 250,000-man army into a well-disciplined reconstruction corps and put it to work helping the Ibos bounce back. To set an example, he hired Ibos who had fought for Biafra and made them his personal pilots and bodyguards. He gave Ibos federal jobs...
He returns to Paris, wonders whether to call Franchise (Frangoise Fabian), who has been waiting for him, and instead goes to her apartment. He hides when he hears someone else coming in −another man. Simon sneaks out. Much of the rest of the film is a reconstruction of how...
Contemporary industrial Japan is living testimony to this pattern. Japan's rise to world leadership in science and technology resulted directly from American reconstruction of the war-torn islands. The United States set out to build, in her own image, the enemy she had destroyed. And the indigenous population, embarrassed...
Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to incorporate the expansion of foreign markets into his plans for recovery. A trade agreement program was developed to improve the American position in foreign markets relative to the other powers. The Export-Import Bank was created for loans to foreign countries which usually had to...
The United States resumed reconaissance flights over North Vietnam in August in violation of the peace accords. Siphan was far more concerned with President Nixon's unwillingness to pay for the damages done by the United States to North Vietnam. The January agreement had omitted reference to reparations, according to...