Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ANNUAL N.B.A. ALL-STAR GAME (ABC, 8:30 p.m. to conclusion). Top stars from the National Basketball Association's Eastern and Western divisions hoop it up on the court in Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden...
...Arabs turned on the West during the Arab-Israeli war in June, the Russians seized the opportunity. From Morocco on the Atlantic to South Yemen on the Arabian Sea, they are supplying weapons, training troops, running aid programs and generally making themselves useful in areas that until recently were Western preserves. To match their new stake in the area, they have increased their Mediterranean fleet to some 50 ships, which thus equals in number, if not in firepower, the U.S. Sixth Fleet. Such ports as Algeria's Mers-el-Kebir, Egypt's Alexandria and Syria's Latakia...
...welcome my contact with Asian scholars," Long said. He added, "It should help me sort out the differences in Eastern and Western perspectives...
...TOURIST TRAVEL. The President wants a $500 million drop in the $2 billion-a-year payments deficit caused by the U.S. penchant for globetrotting. He not only urged Americans "to defer for the next two years all nonessential travel outside the Western Hemisphere," but also promised to ask Congress to put teeth in the ban. Most likely: a head tax of $100 or more per person per trip. If Congress enacts effective curbs, the $14 billion world tourist industry, among the largest ingredients of world trade, will suffer quite a jolt. Some 3,000,000 U.S. tourists spend...
Although many Western European governments, most notably the French, have been saying that Washington must take stern action against the balance of payments deficit, they could only be taken aback at the extent of what Paris' Les Echos called Johnson's "anti-Marshall Plan." The cut off of dollars will curtail industrial expansion on the Continent by forcing interest rates up (Eurodollar bond-yield rates climbed 1%, to 7.2%, last week). Declining tourism and tougher competition from U.S. exporters are considered likely to depress business revenues. Italy expects the U.S. controls to tip its precarious balance of payments...