Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Risk. The U-2 was born of necessity. In early 1952, U.S. intelligence officers recognized that the continuing revolution in weapon design, coupled with the Soviets' fanatic penchant for secrecy, had put the U.S. at a dangerous disadvantage. The U.S. was starved for intelligence information. The most obvious solution was high-altitude air surveillance. President Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson both agreed that such air reconnaissance was desirable-but they were unwilling to pursue such a project for fear of the results if a spy plane were shot down...
...have a secretary, then an assistant general secretary, then a secretariat." Shortly before the committee approved the pro visional admission of nine new churches, which will bring the total to 209, Dr. Kathleen Bliss of Great Britain, a member of the Executive Committee, pointed out that there is a risk involved in growth: the possibility that the council's original sense of fellowship may be lost. "A lot of churches join as a way of making themselves 'O.K.' churches," she said, adding that they often bring "something that is not thereby the World Council's wishes...
These days, starting a new big-city daily takes more money than most men have or care to risk. The mortality rate reaches perilously close to 100%, and even if the tender seedling manages somehow to sprout, it must struggle for growth in the sun-robbing shadow of sturdy old plants-well-rooted dailies that have been around long enough to become a habit. These difficulties seem particularly obvious in Phoenix, Ariz., which already has two papers-Eugene Pulliam's Republic and Gazette-and has indicated no crying need for another. Yet last week the city was alive with...
...sympathy for the Buddhists. It also put U.S. policy in South Viet Nam, which involves the lives and safety of 14,000 U.S. troops, into an agonizing dilemma. While often unhappy with Diem, the U.S. has proceeded on the assumption that it was safer to stick with him than risk the chaos that might surround a switch to a new, unknown and unpredictable regime. But by his move against the Buddhist monks, who have the growing support of the country's vast Buddhist majority, Roman Catholic Diem may finally have shattered his own political usefulness. He also opened...
...Course of Events. After nine years of absolute power, the Ngo family had taken a considerable risk in letting so much authority slip from its hands under the martial law proclamation. Taking over the functioning of all government ministries, the army for the first time has a viable power structure of its own. It may well stay loyal as long as Diem remains in the presidential palace, but Nhu is vastly unpopular with most of the military commanders except Tung. The army immediately tried to dissociate itself from the Buddhist crackdown. All official bulletins from the army-controlled government information...