Word: wars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...timing of such feverish activity seems strange. After months of border skirmishes, the Chinese and Russians five weeks ago sat down to talks in Peking. Though the talks are believed to be stalemated, there have been no reports of renewed tension along the border. One explanation for the war preparations is that the Chinese, who seem genuinely afraid of Soviet military power, suspect that the Russians might seize on a breakdown in the talks as a pretext for launching a military strike against China. A war scare also serves Mao's domestic interests. Though 15 months ago he called...
ISRAEL is determined to maintain order in the territories seized from its neighbors in the 1967 war. To do so, it has taken harsh action against anyone believed to have harbored or assisted Arab terrorists. The houses of suspects have been destroyed, the owners exiled to Arab countries or imprisoned. As the war of terror has intensified, so have Israeli reprisals. When an Israeli soldier was killed by a terrorist hand grenade in the village of Halhoul in occupied Jordanian territory last month, Israelis decided to hold the community responsible. Acting under Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's new concept...
...emerged from the crisis with something less than total victory. Later that day, after Golda and Moshe returned to the Cabinet, which was still in session, the Ministers refused either to approve or disapprove his doctrine of neighborhood punishment. Instead, they agreed on a formula to limit the old war hero's freedom of action. In the future, the general must have clearance from the Cabinet or its security committee before he punishes a whole community for the actions of terrorists operating there...
...Moratorium Day in October, thousands of newsmen signed petitions for peace, joined in rallies and donned buttons or armbands. During this month's Moratorium activities, reporter participation was less pronounced but still present. (Not all the involved newsmen, it should be noted, were against the war. The Chattanooga Times, in fact, carried both pro and antiwar ads bought by groups of their own reporters...
Dallas-born Jeeb Halaby (his mother was English, his father Syrian) took a law degree at Yale and served as a Navy pilot in World War II, flying the first U.S. jet cross-country in 1944. After the war, he hopped from job to job with indifferent success. At Pan Am, however, his energy and judgment have earned him the respect of associates and the confidence of Founder Trippe...