Word: successful
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UNDER the banner of "peaceful competition," the U.S.S.R. has taken the offensive on a cold-war front that it long ignored. To measure the success of this offensive. TIME'S Foreign News section queried correspondents in 15 countries for on-the-spot appraisals of the Soviet foreign-aid program. For the results, see FOREIGN NEWS, Challenge in Giving...
...country's defense effort out of uniform than in. I have spent 6½ years out of the past nine in the Pentagon, and I haven't been able to do the things I think ought to be done. I have asked, recommended and pleaded with little success...
...SUDAN. A Russian offer to trade arms and machinery for surplus cotton has so far met with no success. But last year an estimated 200 Sudanese went to the U.S.S.R. at Russian expense as students or visitors. Says a Western diplomat in Khartoum: "The Soviet appeal is that they pay attention to people who have never had any attention paid to them before. They offer free trips to Moscow to people who have never been ten miles out of Khartoum...
Good Road. Last week, as he boarded a London-bound plane at Nicosia airport, Sir Hugh was cautious about the success of-the bridge building. "On our journey to the Promised Land," said he, "we are not yet at the Jordan. We are just about at the Red Sea. Our task must be to find a good road toward an eventual settlement...
...though he had to read of his success to believe it, the strongman ordered every newspaper in Venezuela to print frontpage editorials denouncing the uprising. Quick to refuse was the Rev. Jesús Hernández Chapellin, editor of the Roman Catholic daily La Religión. Pérez Jiménez jailed the priest, kept him jailed even after the government canceled its order to the press. At week's end, shorn of the belief that the armed forces were 100% behind him, and battling the Catholic Church, the pudgy dictator wore an unsettled look strangely...