Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land-based defenses?a goal that the Russian navy has partial ly reached by penetrating the Mediterranean. In a report to the Western European Union last November, Dutch Delegate Frans Goedhart warned: "It is no longer correct to speak of the 'danger' of the Soviet Union outflanking the NATO southern flank. This 'danger' has become a reality." To the north, the Russians have also turned the Baltic into a virtual Red Sea on which their warships now outnumber NATO forces...
...area." Even as Lee spoke, new troubles plagued Viet Nam's neighbors-and prompted their leaders to speak out in warning. >In Laos, the major staging area for Communist forces moving into South Viet Nam, at least 2,500 North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao troops have surrounded the southern provincial capital, Saravane. The city is important because it sits astride Route 23, a main feeder to the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and commands the whole southern region. Last week an outnumbered royalist force of 1,000 managed to turn back attacks on two outposts defending it, but lost...
...reasoned that the ark was probably built of either bamboo or lightweight wood, both common to southern Iraq. To reconstruct the design, he relied entirely on God's cryptic commands to Noah (Genesis 6: 14-16) that the ark should have a door in its side, a skylight and three decks. The Scriptures mention three dimensions: the vessel was to be 300 cubits (492 ft.) long, 50 cubits (82 ft.) wide, and 30 cubits (49 ft.) high. That would make it somewhat larger than a World War II Liberty ship. After exhaustive reckoning, Ben-Uri concluded that to meet...
...total of $89.8 million and have an annual capacity of 555,000 tons. When these are completed in four years, work will begin on the next phase-an iron-reduction and steelmaking plant that will be operation al by 1976. The site for the complex will be the southern port of Kaohsiung into which will flow slab and billet for the first stage and, later, iron ore from Australia to produce the finished steel...
...Senate rejected a motion to shut off a month-long debate on two crucial civil rights bills last Wednesday, seven votes short of the necessary two-thirds. In a 55-37 fight, the bill was defeated by the ever obstreperous group of Southern Democrats and Republicans who scotched so much worthwhile legislation in the last congressional session. The United States has not been so close to internal warfare in the last hundred years. It can little afford such chicanery...