Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee emphasized that "we are not supporters of a President or of an Administration; we are supporters of the office of the presidency." "We favor," it said, "a sensible road between capitulation and the indiscriminate use of raw power. We believe that we speak for the great 'silent center' of American life, the understanding, independent and responsible men and women who have consistently opposed rewarding international aggressors from Adolf Hitler to Mao Tse-tung." Lest Hanoi get the wrong idea from antiwar demonstrations, it added: "We want the aggressors to know that there is a solid, stubborn, dedicated...
...annual U.S. $60 million economic-aid package now goes to the impoverished area. U.S. Special Forces train Thai soldiers in counterinsurgency, and a few Americans work directly with troops in the field. While they leave problems at the village level to the Thais, U.S. advisers also help in road building, health and development projects...
...handsomely for his friendship. The Chinese have given a shoe factory, a warehouse complex and a highway that cuts strategically through the mountains from Red-held Tibet to Katmandu. India, which dominates Nepal's foreign commerce and is pledged to defend the kingdom, has built a rival road south from Katmandu toward Calcutta. The Russians have chipped in with a cigarette plant and a sugar refinery. The U.S. is working on rural development, malaria eradication, family planning and education. It also hopes to participate, along with India, Britain and Russia, in Mahendra's most ambitious scheme: a third...
When De Gaulle's black Citroen finally rumbled down the twisting road back to France, Andorrans wondered why their French Co-Prince had decided to come. De Gaulle spoke of building a technical school in Andorra and of connecting the principality by tunnel with France, but those announcements could have been made in Paris. Spanish officials called the visit "more picturesque than political," but Andorrans did not ponder De Gaulle's mysterious ways for long. They reopened their shutters and went back to catering to the thousands of lesser Frenchmen who come to Andorra each year to shop...
...islands. Occupying U.S. forces leveled much of what the Japanese built that was still intact after the war. Even what survived was seldom maintained, such as the once excellent water system on the island of Dublon, in Truk lagoon, now rusting in disuse, or the jungle-swallowed road on Babelthuap that once enabled outlying copra farmers and fishermen to bring their goods to market...