Word: union
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tampering. Though Thang has served as president of the North Viet Nam-U.S.S.R. Friendship Association and has been awarded the Order of Lenin and the Stalin Peace Prize, he is not expected to tamper with Hanoi's delicate relations with the Soviet Union and China. For that matter, he will probably be allowed to tamper with very little. To avert a bruising struggle for the succession, the contenders have quite deliberately removed the presidency from the arena. Until North Viet Nam's power vacuum is filled, "Uncle Ton," as Thang is sometimes called, is expected...
...well on its way to becoming a world power. Now that prospect is remote. To be sure, the indexes of improvement over 1949 are impressive (see chart opposite). China has emerged as a formidable Asian power, a member of the nuclear club,* and an ideological challenger of the Soviet Union. But it also remains economically backward, militarily weak, politically divided and alienated from much of the world...
...fought a war and have never seen an imperialist or known capitalism in power," he told American Author Edgar Snow in 1965. He feared that the young, without the rigors of revolution to test them as he had been tested, were getting soft. The ideological split with the Soviet Union was by now forbiddingly wide, and Mao feared that China would eventually follow the Soviet example: a revolution that had been sold out, turning bourgeois in its concern for consumer goods and comforts rather than self-sacrifice and struggle. His antidote, the prescription of an aging revolutionary romantic...
Direct Talks. In Washington, Mrs. Meir repeated the negotiation terms on which the Israelis insist: either direct talks with the Arabs or none at all. She is especially adamant in her refusal to recognize any effort by the Soviet Union to arrange peace terms. This puts her at odds with the Nixon Administration, which believes that the Russians-as equippers of the Arabs -must play a part in peace as in war. Thus, when Secretary of State William Rogers met on two occasions last week with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, the Middle East was high on their agenda. Moscow...
...bound to reflect a Christian bias in what is historically a Christian society. Other critics insist that true impartiality, in any event, distorts the real nature of religion as a sense of the ultimate. "Reading the Bible as literature rather than as revelation," says Rabbi Eugene Borowitz of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, "is worse than not reading...