Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...efforts to chart a policy may well be frustrated by the arabesque of politics in the Middle East, where the losers, sounding as if they were inspired by hashish as well as hubris, managed to talk like winners. Even in the past, Washington had limited leverage in the region. Now, in the face of Israeli distrust and Arab hatred-fanned by Nasser's face-saving lie about U.S. and British intervention on Israel's behalf-its influence is virtually nonexistent...
Seismographs in Tokyo and Seattle shuddered from a distant explosion last week. From Peking came a boastful announcement: "China successfully exploded her first hydrogen bomb over the western region today." The Chinese left no doubt that the explosion was meant as a political blast. Calling it "a splendid achievement of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution," Peking added: "China's hydrogen-bomb test will give very great support to the people of Viet Nam, fighting against the U.S., and to the Arab people, who are resisting the Israeli aggressors...
...sequel could be a dangerous new arms race in the Middle East, or else a windfall of economic aid for the area. To help develop "cooperative programs for the economic and social development of all the countries of the region," and to keep an eye on the strategic situation in the Mideast, Johnson set up a special subcommittee of the National Security Council, patterned after the ExCom machinery installed by John F. Kennedy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Summoned back from his post at the Ford Foundation to serve as the group's executive secretary was McGeorge Bundy...
General Motors sent home 4,000 day-shift workers from its Linden, N.J., plant and canceled operations at five other facilities. Laboratories, factories and offices throughout the heavily industrialized region also shut down. Schoolchildren got an unexpected holiday; police and firemen were called in for emergency shifts. At a Wilmington medical center, a 10-lb. 2-oz. boy was born by flashlight...
...East and Central Java alone, 65,000 persons have been converted. In the Karoland region of North Sumatra, 16,000 have joined Christian churches. Thirty new congregations with a membership of 5,000 have been founded in one section of West Borneo. In Djakarta, 50 new Bible-study groups have sprung up-and so great is the demand for Bibles that a shortage has developed. The U.S. National Council of Churches has launched a drive for $300,000 to help Indonesian Protestants assimilate their new members...