Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overthrow of King Farouk and the establishment of the republic, Nasser told the congress of the ruling Arab Socialist Union: "We now begin the stage of liberation. We shall fight for the restoration of our land, not only Egyptian lands but all Arab lands." Calling for a war of attrition, he warned that "we are now engaged in a long battle to drain the enemy's strength." In an attempt to create more Arab cooperation against Israel, he called for a new Arab summit conference, noting that "conditions now are very different from what they were when we last...
...uninspiring image is especially ironic because the Prince has been groomed since childhood for the throne. Born in Roman exile during the Spanish Civil War, Juan Carlos first went to Spain in 1948 because of an agreement made between his father, Don Juan, and Franco that called for the young Prince to be educated in Spain. Under Franco's personal supervision, Juan Carlos underwent intensive schooling in military and political arts. He holds the ranks of captain in the army and air force and the equivalent grade of full lieutenant in the navy. He is a jet-fighter...
When the Geneva accords established Laotian neutrality seven years ago, hope flickered briefly that they would also bring an end to fighting between Communist and non-Communist forces and take the kingdom out of the cold war. No such thing happened, of course: the treaty-stipulated tripartite regime, composed of rightist, neutralist and leftist factions, collapsed in short order. Laos' Communists, the Pathet Lao, walked out of the government; the fighting resumed, and has been going on in desultory if often deadly fashion ever since...
...second objective may well be to strengthen the bargaining position of their Pathet Lao allies in eventual negotiations with Souvanna Phouma. Both the Pathet Lao and the Vientiane government have all along maintained that they want to return to a tripartite government. Such a reconciliation could come after the war in Viet Nam draws to a close. It is probably with that in mind that the Communists are now pressing their offensive...
...talk to workers like you know everything and they know nothing." It summed up the program's purpose: To get across "the identity of interests of students and workers" and spell out "the relationship of the Viet Nam and the other imperialist wars to their immediate demands, to the fact that they and their sons die in the war, that it is a war for the rich-the class perspective." During the workin, students were to challenge racism among white workers, to explain their campus goals, and to "break down bourgeois, elitist ideas in ourselves" about workers...