Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just hang on in South Viet Nam, the Communists will grow tired and seek a settlement-or the South Vietnamese army and government will grow strong enough to stand alone. What both views seem to exclude is the possibility of finding a means to get the peace talks moving short of withdrawing abruptly or lingering indefinitely...
...meet his family. At first, he said, his fa ther loved Ella Jean "like a daughter-in-law." Later, the elder Saikin developed a different kind of affection for the pret ty but not too bright girl, who had man aged to cram a lot of living into her short life. Before the end of the sum mer, the father was escorting Ella Jean to her room each night where they would give each other "rubdowns." He was also checking on Ella Jean's back ground. Upon discovering that she was married to Air Force Sergeant Samuel Mumma...
...Christian Democrats drew 46.6% of the vote and probably will win 245 of the Bundestag's 496 seats, the same as in the 1965 elections. The Social Democrats attracted 42.3% of the ballots and picked up 20 new seats for a total of 222. Still their performance fell short of some optimistic expectations. The big losers were the Free Democrats, who had sought to transform themselves from a conservative into a liberal party; with only 5.6% of the vote, they lost 20 seats and wound up with only 29. The far-rightist National Democrats, whose presence in the campaign...
...says Harvard's Edwin O. Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo, "the chief problem that China presents may not be the danger that it will be so rich and strong, as well as hostile, that it menaces our basic interests, but rather that it may fall so short of meeting the economic needs and aspirations of its people that it remains an unstable and sick fifth of humanity." Not until Peking's leaders begin to busy themselves with the task of satisfying those basic needs will China be able to set out on the long road that...
...proved short-lived. When Cipolenos awoke after the weekend, they found city hall ringed by 200 heavily armed policemen who had been trucked in from other towns overnight by the enraged Chief Aller. Salto managed to escape, but Aller jailed his 19-year-old son and declared himself "interim mayor...