Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspicion that haunts Western analysts is that the North is cynically-and successfully-exploiting the world's desire for peace in order to create pressure for a long or even permanent bombing pause. The Vatican weekly L'Osservatore della Domenica last week printed its harshest criticism yet of U.S. bombing policy, calling it a "blind alley" that undermines the U.S. "moral and political" position. Leaders of West Germany's Social Democratic Party urged Washington to end the bombing. Several U.S. Congressmen also called for a bombing pause and immediate negotiations, including Senator Robert Kennedy. "It seems...
With that, the President moved to stanch the dollar drain with the most Draconian measures yet. He outlined a five-point program aimed at cutting the deficit by $3 billion in the year ahead. Principal features: a reduction in U.S. investment abroad, particularly in Western Europe, to save $1 billion; a cutback in U.S. loans to foreigners to save $500 million; scaled-down Government expenditures overseas-by the Pentagon, by heavily staffed U.S. embassies and by G.I.s and their dependents-to save $500 million; deferment for two years of all but what the President called "the most important, urgent...
...prevent tourists from going outside the Western Hemisphere is ... a shocking infringement on individual rights," Haberler says. He also opposes the measures because they would restrict international trade, and, by discriminating against Europe, "add a strong touch of economic warfare...
...thing hippie religion is not is Judaeo-Christian in outlook. Jesus may be revered as the hip guru of his time who preached a primitive form of love power, but Western churches are generally abhorred by the hippies as irrelevant and square. Instead, they display a considerable interest in the occult on the theory that the important levels of spiritual consciousness are those that lie beyond man's reason. "Christ studied the occult," contends one Los Angeles believer, explaining dubiously that "he learned to walk on water...
...jungle boots, uniforms and galvanized steel for troops fighting in Viet Nam. One result is spreading prosperity-including even traffic jams -in Korean cities. Men are turning to woolen suits and many women are discarding their traditional chima and chogori (silk blouse and long skirt) for once scarce Western dresses. The silk goes into exports...