Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a plan for that, but I cannot give you a timetable. It depends on how the Communists act, whether they are ready to de-escalate the war, or step up their infiltration and escalate the war. There will be no unilateral withdrawal of U.S. forces from Viet...
Radio Moscow beams an ultimatum: Either Mao and his clique step down, or Peking will be seized. To reinforce the warning, Soviet heavy bombers destroy China's nuclear-testing-and-development centers at Lop Nor and Lanchow. Stubbornly, Mao decides to fight on. Peking falls, and to the west, Soviet divisions surge into Sinkiang, to be received without conspicuous resentment by the tribal peoples of the area, long oppressed by the Chinese. The Russians move no farther south. Aware of Chinese skills at guerrilla warfare, Moscow orders that a new frontier be set up roughly along the 38th parallel...
...leaving of it. In so doing, Ayub has promised to restore universal suffrage and return Pakistan to the parliamentary system in a general election to be held near the end of the year. After a decade of one-man rule, the soldierly Ayub has announced his "irrevocable decision" to step aside at that point, leaving to a discordant array of opposition politicians the task of healing Pakistan's divisions, inflamed by five months of anti-government disorders. Last week new rioting and outbreaks of mob rule in East Pakistan showed just how precarious the task...
...segment of the community whose interests have been too long ignored. Winning rent control will not be the end of the housing fight. It is obvious that the real answer to the problem lies in the construction of more low rent units, and this must be the next step...
THERE IS, however, another side of the coin, which is very different from this sort of make-believe. The step-up drafting of Vietnamese males into the army and the continuous driving of the country people into the towns and cities, far from helping to defeat the communists, is only production more and more problems for the Allied side. For example, the salary of a Vietnamese soldier is about 2,500 piasters a month, while a kilogram of pork costs about 500 piasters. Such salary is not enough for him to even feed himself alone...