Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wake of large-scale protest against the Cambodian intervention and the Kent State killings, Nixon on May 8 was going out of his way to stress the limited nature of the incursion. In the give-and-take of his press conference, Nixon overstated the certainty of South Vietnamese withdrawal and of the termination of U.S. support. The remark took some of his subordinates by surprise. The equivocations since then have been designed to retreat somewhat from that firm statement...
Near the Lebanese border last week, Defense Minister Dayan paid a series of condolence calls in the wake of the Arab ambush of an Israeli school bus. Nine small children, three teachers and the bus driver died in the bazooka attack near Baram, and Dayan made it plain that Israel held Beirut responsible for the guerrillas' action. "If the Lebanese government declares it is not obliged to serve as a policeman to stop the terrorists," said Dayan, "then we will...
Frustrated Martyr. The renewed activism, coming in the wake of student protests in Paris and suburban schools as well as a series of bombings and fires, was too much for the government. At a Cabinet meeting, Interior Minister Raymond Marcellin urged that the 2,000 member Proletarian Left Movement be suppressed for plotting to "destroy and overthrow the constitutional regime and to incite citizens to arms against the authority of the state." The government quickly complied. The following day the two editors of the Proletarian Left's newspaper were convicted and sentenced to prison, one for eight months...
China's scientific community is also recovering from the dislocations of the Cultural Revolution. In the wake of China's first satellite launching, experts concluded that Peking may be closer to the iCBM stage than anybody had suspected. Pentagon officials estimate that the Chinese may well be able to test an intercontinental missile within a few months...
...Labor's economic policies began taking hold. The delayed effects of Wilson's 1967 devaluation of the pound were finally being felt. The hold-down on demand for more consumer products was also making an impact. There was new confidence in the pound, particularly in the wake of France's devaluation and West Germany's revaluation. As a result, the country's chronic balance of payments deficit was turned into a projected $1.2 billion surplus for 1970. A bullish mood was in the air, and voters began to feel their pocketbooks swelling with widespread wage...