Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pueblo had "intruded deep" into North Korea's waters-a ploy apparently aimed at inducing the U.S. to issue an apology in exchange for the crewmen's return. And at week's end Pyongyang loudly claimed that U.S. "armed boats" had invaded North Korea's western coastal waters for "provocative acts," but were driven away...
There would be a removal of foreign military troops or bases in the area and there would be no alliance by nations in the area with outside blocs, either Eastern or Western. The principle of self-determination would hold sway internally. The nations concerned . . . should be assisted in achieving economic development cooperatively on a regional basis...
Structural defects, however have proved far more crippling than poor logistics and organization. Unlike similar UN observation teams elsewhere, the ICC has never managed to stay aloof from the conflicts it superintends. Its tripartite composition--each team consists of a Communist Pole, Western Canadian, and neutral Indian--has made the ICC as much a forum for propagandizing as an objective mediator...
...rush to borrow abroad seemed perfectly predictable after President Johnson, in his New Year's Day package of balance of payments restrictions, prohibited U.S. companies from sending dollars overseas for investment in Western Europe. Still, it came as a surprise to financiers on both sides of the Atlantic that the rush for Eurodollars-U.S. dollars already in foreign hands-expanded into a wild stampede...
...nouvelle roman." In that vein, he offers metaphor after metaphor based upon far-out late-show conceits ("I whispered like Phyllis Thaxter in Thirty Seconds over Tokyo"). And he makes it Myra's thesis that the flicks of 1931 to 1945, if not the high point of Western culture, were certainly the most formative influence upon anyone who came of age during that "post-Gutenberg and pre-Apocalypse...