Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find ourselves faced by political pressures of a nature never encountered during the previous administrations," warned Israel's leading daily, Ha'aretz. "We had better be prepared to withstand it." For precisely the same reason, Arab countries welcomed Washington's more active role in a region where, so far as they are concerned, the U.S. has been far too content to do nothing. That policy is exactly what the Israelis prescribe, since they feel that time is on their side in forcing the Arabs to deal with them directly...
Almost Certain Approval. Each region will be governed by a Paris-appointed prefect, but his decisions will be made in coordination with proposed regional councils consisting of locally elected deputies, representatives of local communes and departments, and appointed officials such as chamber of commerce presidents. These councils will levy local taxes, prepare local budgets and plan economic development. If the plan is approved in the forthcoming referendum-and that approval seems almost certain-the regions may be able to "renew their personality," as French Technocrat Louis Armand once put it, "without having to do it through that monster that...
...speed of light (186,000 miles per second) are absolutely im possible. Such speeds must be approached before man will ever be able to travel to distant stars, and Feinberg says that he does not "like the thought of being permanently confined by lim ited velocities to a small region around our solar system...
...Ralph McGill, two days before his 71st birthday, was a painful reminder of just how rare such men are. For four decades his daily column caressed the South with his love, lashed it for its faults, served as its conscience. Surveys repeatedly rated him as both the region's best-liked and least-liked writer-but always the most read. Even his haters could not ignore him, because, as one of his admiring colleagues put it: "Mac had guts when it took guts to have guts...
Taking a year's leave of absence from his diplomatic post in Madrid, Singh set out to record the art of the whole Himalayan region. Most crucial to his success was a letter from the Dalai Lama -he carried it "like a magic wand." It authorized him to photograph inside Hindu and Buddhist temples, which is ordinarily prohibited. By mule, Jeep, helicopter and on foot, across dizzying rope bridges, up perilous footpaths, he scaled heights that literally took his breath away. Once he narrowly escaped death when he slipped and fell, only to catch a sturdy bush ten feet...