Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your cover article on civil defense [Oct. 20] is perhaps both a symptom and a cause of mankind's present retreat from the idea of the obsolescence of war in the nuclear age. It seems that both we and the Russians are indeed beginning to assume our survivability as nations after such a war-if only we dig well enough beforehand. This kind of mutual self-confidence may well help to bring on the war we seek to avoid...
...people are tired of fighting, the army is tired of retreat," he said. Gaullist tactics aimed at ending the politically divisive Algerian war have not yet improved matters. "Peace isn't much nearer, and the tragedy most certainly is," he said...
Mensa has continued to retreat from the grandiose conception of 1945. But if the club has thrown overboard Berrill's dream that it might chart England's future, intellectual democracy has had its compensations. After a long period of stagnancy, membership has boomed tenfold since 1958, so that today there are 2,000 members. In the last year, a small platoon of advance guards have infiltrated this country and have already set up a flourishing chapter in New York, and are organizing a new group in the Boston area...
...African delegates were incensed and Liberia's Ambassador Henry Ford Cooper demanded that the speech be stricken from the record. It was an unprecedented challenge to the one institution that makes the U.N. General Assembly important-free speech. Only later did the more reflective among the Africans suggest retreat to the less harsh course of a vote of censure. The grounds: Louw's speech had been "offensive, fictitious and erroneous." Precipitately, a ballot was taken and the motion carried by 67 votes to South Africa's 1, with 20 delegates abstaining and 9 (including...
...giving asylum to dozens of anti-Gaullist conspirators. Dashing Pierre Lagaillarde, 30, who led the 1960 Algiers "revolt of the barricades." was photographed lolling beside the pool at the exclusive Real Madrid Club. Ex-General Raoul Salan, head of the terrorist Secret Army Organization, used Spain as a safe retreat to receive visitors and plan rebellion...