Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel that the world was, and is still, unjust toward us and that the "four bigs" took part in chasing us from our country. Neither Nasser nor Dayan nor the four bigs, who after killing the victim are trying now to revive him, can give peace to the region. Peace comes with justice, and justice means our return home...
...Progress, since 1961 the principal vehicle for U.S. aid to Latin America. Congress cut Alianza funds that Lyndon Johnson had requested from $625 million to a disappointing $336.5 million, and Nixon has publicly criticized the program's performance. At each stop, Latin leaders recited the litany of the region's social problems from illiteracy and overpopulation to the need for agrarian reform...
...lull during the sunspot minimum in 1963-64. There is an even closer connection. Most of the violent solar eruptions occur near clusters of sunspots on the solar surface and seem to derive their energy from the magnetic fields that cause the spots. Suddenly flaring into extreme brilliance, a region hundreds of millions of square miles in area can erupt, shooting a stream of electromagnetic radiation and particles into space. Within 15 minutes after the appearance of some flares, bursts of electromagnetic radiation and some high-energy particles begin to buffet the earth and moon. These are the vanguard...
...country home last weekend, he promised to give the Assembly a greater say in running the government-a centrist obsession. He also decided to switch away from a campaign strategy based on TV appearances and announced that he would spend nearly half the two-week campaign visiting every region in France...
...Gaulle's destiny. The referendum's proposal for government decentralization spawned a host of local antagonisms from communities that stood to lose by it. Nancy, the historic capital of Lorraine, was incensed that smaller Metz, a city of Germanic language and origin, would become the capital of its region, the new Lorraine. Though they had given De Gaulle 75% of their vote in 1962, the citizens of Nancy delivered an angry 60% of their votes against him in the referendum...