Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaction to Goldberg's graceful retreat was a worldwide sigh of relief. Whatever the validity of the U.S. position, almost no other nation was willing to sacrifice the operation of the U.N. to a feud between the world's constantly feuding big powers. The change in U.S. policy means that any further U.N. peace-keeping operations will depend on either voluntary contributions or the U.N. budget. But most of them have been financed by these methods anyway−Korea and Cyprus by donations, Kashmir and Palestine by the U.N. treasury. The Russians, who, according to U.S. figures...
NEVER CALL RETREAT by Bruce Catton. 555 pages. Doubleday...
...quote President Johnson again, "safely and peace" are not certainly "in the retreat or in weakness." Perhaps they exist in the admission of the major powers that each nation must choose by itself its own destiny and the form of its government, whatever that form may be. This seems to us the meaning of national independence, which our people found again with the hard end of the decolonization. If we are not able to remain indifferent to suffering of Vietnamese people, it is also because the principle of national independence is indivisible. We remember the words of John Donne, which...
...wanted to know why her son was fighting in Viet Nam. Johnson's answer: "Three times in my lifetime-in two world wars and in Korea-Americans have gone to far lands to fight for freedom. We have learned at a terrible and a brutal cost that retreat does not bring safety, and weakness does not bring peace. And it is this lesson that has brought us to Viet...
...some 4,000 young followers of Papandreou carried his cause to the Parliament building in downtown Athens. Cordons of police warned them back, but they pressed on. Suddenly the police lobbed tear gas grenades and turned fire hoses on them, then waded in with truncheons. In the push to retreat, bodies tangled and fell. When the curtain of tear gas lifted, Stadium Street was strewn with stunned demonstrators and tourists, broken glass, placards, clothing and hundreds of odd shoes. One student, Sotirios Petroulas, 25, suffocated, and George Papandreou had his first martyr...