Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem in Vietnam, Soliven said, centers around the President and virtual dictator Mo Diem, who has an inflexible will and who will not tolerate any opposition within his country. Diem has appointed close relatives to high government positions and these people have proved very ineffective. Such rampant nepotism is not unlike contemporary politics in Massachusetts, he added...
...political reality than either De Gaulle or Adenauer. For that is their job-to turn "general aspiration into a concrete proposal," as one Monnet associate put it-and they have been doing it well since the committee was formed in October 1955. Its first public declaration was a virtual blueprint for Euratom. the joint Western European agency for the peaceful uses of atomic power. By applying pressure to strategic points, the committee also helped mightily to push the Common Market treaty through European parliaments. Last year it aired the possibility of a single European monetary system...
Hunger was still Red China's most pressing problem. Refugees from Canton reported that 800,000 of the city's population of 2,000,000 are being transferred to farm communes in an effort to increase agricultural output. Heavy industry in Kwangtung has come to a virtual standstill as plants have either shut down or are operating with only skeleton forces...
Paper Solace. The result is that some areas of the vast Congo interior are at a virtual standstill; last year coffee and cotton exports yielded only fractions of their normal revenue, and much of the big palm-oil output is lost to smugglers. Unemployed workers upcountry now flock to Leopoldville, where 100,000 of the normal 300,000 labor force are already out of work. Organized gangs, ignoring the barred windows and the bright floodlights around homes of the well to do, creep up at night to saw off the bars and steal what they can. The U.N. is bringing...
...bring Katanga back into the Congo. U.N. officials have pleaded, cajoled and threatened the two sides to find common ground for a deal. Wearily, Adoula offered repeated concessions, such as a revised constitution to give Katanga greater local autonomy in a federal Congo. But Tshombe wanted all or nothing: virtual independence for Katanga, his own gendarmery, and a corps of foreign mercenaries to run it. While he still would not agree to divvy up the copper profits with the Central government, Tshombe announced a $2,000,000 gift to the Congo, "to ease the catastrophic position and especially...