Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Article IV of the Constitution permits the United States to protect a state against domestic violence "upon request of its Legislature or of its governor if the Legislature cannot be convened...
Because of this, the idea of negotiation is not highly esteemed on its legal merits since the parties cannot assume that they have certain basic legal rights assured, Fairbank writes. He continues: "Consequently, when we urge negotiations upon Hanoi, we are not aware of the lower valuation put upon the word in their tradition." Negotiation is viewed, Fairbank explained, as an alternative or even an adjunct to the use of force in conflict resolution...
...first necessity in dealing with East Asia. Fairbank writes, is to break away from the limited viewpoint which our own culture imposes upon us. Fairbank says that we "have to put our message in the terms of the other culture if we want to get it across...
...soldiers who are even now continuing to stumble back toward the Suez. Soon the Israelis had so many prisoners that they would only detain officers. An official Israeli statement announced that some of the retreating Egyptian soldiers had been machine-gunned by their own troops form across the canal upon their ar- rival. The statement also said that the Egyptians had cut the water pipe lines which fed from Egypt into occupied Sinai and that although it had inconvenienced the Israeli forces, it had also made it more difficult for the returning Egyptian soldiers to find water...
...guns converged on them and forced them back to a white, chalk line several feed from the barb wire. One of the prisoners, their spokesman, held up a piece of paper which he promised would prove that they were refugees on the U.N. payroll and not soldiers. The contract, upon closer examination, had expired on May 31, five days before the battle for Gaza; U Thant's withdrawal had left them in the hole. "We haven't been paid for our work," one of them screamed as I walked away. In the adjacent compound, Egyptian prisoners with...