Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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March 31. Ironically, the most telling attack on the new policy came not from the Conservatives but from a Laborite, Christopher Mayhew, who resigned in protest as Navy Minister. The $5.6 billion budget, warned Mayhew, was "too small if we stay east of Suez and too big if we do not." Though he had quit specifically over the carrier question, he told the House that his far greater fear was that Britain simply could no longer support its worldwide defense responsibilities unless it depended so heavily on U.S. assistance that the British would become "auxiliaries rather than allies...
Even without CS, tunnel life is grim for the Viet Cong. A diary captured in a complex north of Saigon last week carried a typical lamentation: "Oh, what hard days! One has to stay in a tunnel, eat cold rice with salt, drink unboiled water!" That was the last entry. Next day, Tran Bang, the 29-year-old diarist, was killed in an American assault on the once-inviolable underground world of the Viet Cong...
...declaring that he would not withdraw his 70,000 troops, as promised, until an "acceptable" government in San'a is agreed upon. "If anyone thinks we have become tired," Nasser vowed, "let me say that we are a struggling nation, a fighting nation, a patient nation. We can stay in Yemen for one, two, three, four or even five years." As for Israel, Nasser threatened a "deterrent war" if the country decides to go ahead with the development of an atomic weapon. In the same hot breath, Nasser also attacked Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba for daring to advocate...
...Philadelphia, and from 39% to 90% in Washington. In Pittsburgh the Negro school population has more than doubled since World War II-and Pittsburgh is responding with a creative new program designed to raise the standard of education so high that the whites will want to stay and the Negroes will get the kind of training they need to take an equal place in society...
...prices 5% . In West Germany, where wages increased 8.9% last year and the cost of living grew by 4.2% , Bundesbank President Karl Blessing warned last week that the economy has become dangerously unbalanced and that "the present tempo of cost and price increases cannot continue if we are to stay competitive in world markets." Israel is riddled with inflation because of heavy consumer buying and government spending, including wage boosts for government employees...