Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...success it undeniably was, even though Australia's anti-war leftists had promised Ky the same sort of derisive demonstrations that they had inflicted on Lyndon Johnson last October. There was some trouble, notably in Brisbane, where some 700 pro-and anti-Ky demonstrators squared off with fists. There were taunting signs and other scattered protests along the way, including a group of chanting demonstrators in Sydney who burned Ky in effigy. But Ky's candor and charm largely disarmed his critics, especially among the press. When one newsman jibed at Ky's renowned skill with...
...reported each change of dazzling, multicolored ao dai that she wore, analyzed her hairdos and even printed enlargements of her shoes. The consensus: a stunner. Said Prime Minister Harold Holt: "Marshal Ky's strikingly beautiful wife is a secret weapon who has added to the tour's success...
...attentive as seers at a seance. But he still talks, talks, talks. Rewardingly so. In a performance at Carnegie Hall last week, on the first of a series of tours booked into virtually every major U.S. nightclub and concert hall, his blend of spiel and song was an unqualified success...
...Accra, Ghana. After two whirlwind days of secret negotiations at one of Kwama Nkrumah's old villas, the five men, gushing optimism, emerged from the conference table. Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu, leader of the Eastern Ibos whose threatened secession precipitated the present crisis, called the negotiations "a very big success." Gowon said simply, "Nigeria will definitely remain united." The entire episode seemed nothing short of a miracle, but it soon became clear that many of Nigeria's most crucial problems had not been solved...
...this atmosphere of terror and intransigence that Gowon had to fight for negotiations. His success was no small achievement. And the conference undoubtedly accomplished much. It relieved at least temporarily the accumulating tensions that seemed to be driving Nigeria toward civil war. It also brought an agreement to hold further talks, this time in Nigeria...