Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, the Tyoneks expect to fish and trap only for sport in the future. "We will always work," said Village Council Secretary Emil McCord, 33, as his two sons watched a TV Western last week in their new living room. "Of course, it won't be so hard...
Napoleonic Parallels. De Gaulle's visit began auspiciously enough with the warmest reception accorded any Western visitor in Soviet history. Seven MIG fighters locked in wingtip-to-wingtip formation escorted De Gaulle's plane to its landing. As the general deplaned in khakis and kepi, the band struck up La Marseillaise and a battery of antiaircraft cannon boomed 21 times-so loud and near that bystanders felt the breath of the guns. The honor guard was resplendent in grey, gold and red, and their rifle butts hit the ground with such popping precision that De Gaulle winced involuntarily...
...Lenin Avenue) down which Napoleon retreated under Czarist cannonfire in 1812. Last week the route was lined by 800,000 Muscovites waving paper tricolors and shouting "Druzhba!" (friendship). The Napoleonic parallel was completed when De Gaulle was escorted to a spacious apartment within the Kremlin walls, the first Western leader ever so honored and the first Frenchman to sleep there since Bonaparte...
Grand Finale. No other Western leader feels he has more of a right to discuss that disposition than De Gaulle. Moreover, no other Western leader is currently in a position to do so. Britain's Harold Wilson, with his Atlantic orientation and his Common Market phobia, is hardly eligible. West Germany's Ludwig Erhard has been forced into a defensive corner by Social Democratic Leader Willy Brandt's initiative on an exchange of speakers with East Germany; Italy and Spain, the Low Countries and Scandinavia are not contenders...
...Viet Nam, the visiting President in Russia last week might have been American, not French. The U.S., which for 21 years has been the leader of Western Europe, is now so deeply engaged in Asia that even if Lyndon Johnson wanted to involve himself in the current European transmogrification, he would have neither the time nor the forum to do so. De Gaulle is perhaps the only Western leader with the freedom of action and position to do some good in Europe at the moment...