Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moreover, a high-ranking U.S. official noted that Moscow and East Europe have recently "been listening with great attentiveness to everything we've had to say about bringing the war to an end." In Warsaw, a Polish official just back from the nine-nation Communist summit in Moscow said the bloc countries "are pretty tired" of the Viet Nam war, if only because of its mounting cost. In Moscow, he complained, the conferees were pressured into signing a pledge to raise nearly $1 billion in precious hard currencies so that Hanoi could purchase goods in such Western markets...
...Thant did not quite agree: "Any atomic explosion anywhere is to be regretted." Japan lodged its "deep regrets and strongest protests" over the test, which it described as another example of China's "rowing against the stream of the world." Perhaps in tacit agreement, Communist newspapers in Warsaw and Paris downplayed the news as much as possible, but Paris' independent Le Figaro pronounced China "in the fullest sense of the word a nuclear power...
...that the Flying Tiger Line was liable in the deaths of 107 persons lost in 1962 between Guam and the Philippines on a charter Super-Constellation because the crew had inadequate sleeping quarters during the long flight. The judge also decided that Flying Tiger was not protected by the Warsaw Convention's maximum liability ($8,300 per passenger) because the travelers had not been issued tickets warning them, in the fine print, of the Warsaw limit...
...Cracow, so many people showed up that an additional performance had to be scheduled to accommodate the 10,000 ticket seekers. In Warsaw, one of the biggest crowds ever to pack National Philharmonic Hall cheered and clapped for ten minutes. In Venice's San Giorgio church, where applause is forbidden, clergy and audience alike burst into a spontaneous ovation that one priest excused as "homage our Lord would surely want us to pay." The acclaim was neither for a renowned solo ist nor an old master, but for the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ According to St. Luke...
...Japanese Diet, came word that Chen had cooed a few hopeful words about peace talks. Just as Washington started wondering whether the war's most obdurate advocate might be backing off a bit, the Chinese ambassador to Poland, Wang Kuo-chuan, set matters straight. Following a meeting in Warsaw with U.S. Ambassador John Gronouski, the latest in a series of 130 private, little-noted conferences between representatives of the two nations since 1954, Wang delivered a blistering statement, obviously prepared well in advance, accusing the U.S. of "criminal acts," "bankrupt policy," and "butcherlike suppression and priestlike deception...