Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reform along the basic lines that Mills advocates. President Kennedy in a TV speech last year promised "long-needed tax reform that logic and equity demand." But tax reform is a brambly issue for a politician to grab hold of. Any tampering with tax privileges is bound to stir up angry opposition...
...long enough, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant decided to act. His instrument for "reconciliation"' is known simply as "The Plan," a four-part program drawn up last August and designed to force Tshombe to bring his mineral-rich province back into the Congo. Fortnight ago, Thant decided to stir up some action. Off to Britain, Belgium, Portugal and South Africa went letters urging a boycott on the copper and cobalt that earn some $200 million in foreign exchange for Katanga's giant Union Miniere each year. Most merely shrugged. Then, Adoula wrote to 17 nations urging them...
...African countries with 213 U.S. campuses. By working with the African branch offices of the African-American Institute, it seeks to solve the key problem: selecting the right students for the right campuses before they go to the U.S. Last week Director Henry issued a report that should stir pride all over Africa...
Later, Kennedy wrote Stevenson a "Dear Adlai" letter that, without undercutting Bartlett and Alsop, expressed "regret at the unfortunate stir" and "fullest confidence" in Stevenson. Toward week's end, while introducing the President at a Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation dinner, Master of Ceremonies Stevenson joked about the whole flap. Introducing Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver as an "instant peace" salesman so successful that "he makes the United Nations cry for it," Stevenson quipped: "As for me. I've been crying for it for the past week." Adlai quoted Joseph Pulitzer's observation, "Accuracy...
...home, Menon harped on the theme that Pakistan was India's only enemy. Three years ago, when Pakistan proposed a joint defense pact with India, Nehru ingenuously asked, "Joint defense against whom?" Western warnings about China's ultimate intentions were brushed aside as obvious attempts to stir up trouble between peace-loving friends...