Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...austere Army general had little in common. In Saigon, Taylor served loyally, but more as soldier than statesman, with little enthusiasm for coping with the bafflements of Saigon politics. Moreover, there were indeed policy differences, of degree if not of direction, between Taylor and Johnson. During a visit to Washington last month, Taylor is said to have urged that the U.S. decide more clearly how existing troop commitments in Viet Nam are to be used before sending in more men; his advice was not accepted...
...perhaps, in one of those necessary moods of self-consolation that the President, during a visit to the Commerce Department last week, told members of the department's staff: "You are always going to have some unpleasant experiences. But the people will take care of you if you just do right...
...intend to continue our close friendship with Britain." As it happens, the British are under heavy pressure to give up their naval base at Aden when the Federation of South Arabia gains its independence in 1968; the logical site for it would then be Bahrein. Last week, after a visit from Britain's Defense Minister Denis Healey, Sheik Isa let it be known that he would gladly cooperate in such a move...
...only pro-Nasser ruler. When the Egyptian-dominated Arab League proposed a big aid program for the seven Trucial States last year, six of them turned it down at British nudging. Sheik Sakr, 39, on the other hand, joyfully accepted the offer and invited an Arab aid mission to visit Sharja. The British countered by closing all airports in the Trucial States for "urgent repairs," dispatched frigates to cruise offshore and head off unwelcome visitors...
Ravaged Economy. Reprisals were few and feeble. Egypt huffily recalled fleet units on their way to visit Algiers. The Moscow-dominated World Youth Festival, which had been scheduled for this month in Algiers, was moved elsewhere-to Boumedienne's apparent relief. After a week without rioting on Algerian streets, initially hostile Arab governments appeared ready to accept the new Revolutionary Council. The most favorable foreign reaction came from French officials who, after months of negotiating a formula for dividing Algeria's oil revenues, found the new government surprisingly cooperative...