Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While his contest with Lyndon Johnson brought him the support of a variety of dissident elements, including the Nobel-laden "Scientists and Engineers for McCarthy"-many of whose members populated "Scientists and Engineers for Johnson and Humphrey" in 1964-scholarly Gene McCarthy last week got a taste of life beyond the fringe and found it disturbing. At a University of New Hampshire symposium, when Black Power Advocate William L. Strickland purred ugly platitudes labeling the U.S. "fundamentally a racist nation," the usually imperturbable Senator snapped: "I just don't agree." It was clear already that one problem he faces...
...Communist status-and win solid guarantees that the situation will stay stable. The maximum Communist goal, of course, is just the opposite: throw out the Americans, depose the Thieu-Ky government, and establish a regime controlled by the Viet Cong. The V.C. would then unify with the North and support-at least in principle-Communist-fueled wars of liberation elsewhere in the world...
From his self-imposed exile in Paris, for mer Premier Constantine Karamanlis had heated up the political climate by calling on the junta to step down. Politicians on both the right and left sent the King secret assurances of their support, should he make a move. His advisers, mostly retired generals, assured him that the military would obey his commands. Furthermore, Constantine sensed a growing threat to what was left of his royal power. He may also have feared that the new constitution that was being prepared under junta guidance would strip the crown of the power of appointing...
...claims were ridiculed by the small group around Constantine in the north. In Kavalla, Queen Anne-Marie and Queen Mother Frederika kissed the King goodbye and waved him off as he climbed aboard a helicopter for a short flight to the town of Alexandropolis to stir up more support. He returned in midafternoon and took off almost immediately for Salonica, where handbills proclaiming his coup had been dropped from air force planes. While he was in the air, he received the news that Salonica was under junta control. As he turned back to Kavalla, he faced a shattering situation...
Such a deferral would only add to Wilson's woes, since Britain's domestic support for Common Market entry is eroding. Once 62% of the British people favored Common Market member ship, but the latest national opinion poll indicates that only...