Word: segments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he asks them to make contributions to the West's foreign aid budget or to the NATO armies, he must remember that they form nothing like a United States of Europe. The nationalism of de Gaulle, the supra-nationalism of Adenauer, the unilateralist leanings of an important segment of the British Labour Party, the bitterness of France or of Belgium over its allies' behavior in U.N. debates on colonialism, are all powerful influences on the workings of NATO. Kennedy must be ready to roll a lot of oranges, for tact has become the most useful virtue...
...Hope Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Filmed portions of Hope's annual holiday-season tour of U.S. military bases, including a Christmas Day segment from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...
Although the Calvinist Dutch Reformed Church has shown increasing signs of opposition to the government, it was the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches in South Africa that took the lead in fighting apartheid. But last week a major segment of the Dutch Reformed Church expressed aloud its discontent with South Africa's increasingly harsh racial policies...
...born Catholics. "I have an idea that my father had been baptized but wandered from the church," says Murray. "But my mother was a practicing Catholic, and after their marriage he rallied around." Early in his childhood, the family moved across the East River to Jamaica, now a crowded segment of the city but then a rural suburb. Here John Murray, with his two sisters, had a happy, uneventful childhood until his father died when he was twelve...
...aware of Professor Rabi's strongly emotional opposition, and that of a segment of the scientific fraternity, to the resumption of nuclear tests. In my judgment Professor Rabi and his confreres are wrong again. Their technical qualifications as nuclear physicists do not guarantee the validity of their views on public policy...