Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smith's tobacco curtain seemed to be paying off. There was no way to tell how the sales were going. But Salisbury hotels were filled with buyers from all over Western Europe and even Asia. In any case, tobacco farmers could not lose very much, for the government had guaranteed purchase of this year's entire crop if necessary, at prices only slightly lower than last year's. To the chagrin of the British, economic disaster seemed as far away for the Smith government as ever...
...days the reconnaissance helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division (airmobile) hummed over mountaintops, darted down the alleys of valleys, recklessly trying to draw fire-which would pinpoint an enemy in the elephant grass below. It was familiar terrain: the Chu Pong massif and Ia Drang valley in the western highlands near Cambodia, the "Valley of Death," where the division last fall had fought the bloodiest battle of the war. Chu Pong was a perfect place to hit the enemy off-balance as he prepared his campaigns for the coming monsoon, and Air Cav Commander Major General Harry W. O. Kinnard...
Control or not, Pakistan's "nonaligned" government was clearly taken back by the outpouring, obviously concerned over what Washington's reaction might be. To take away some of the sting, Foreign Minister Zulficar Ali Bhutto called a special press conference for Western newsmen, gave assurance that Pakistan, despite its friendship with China, would "do nothing to endanger relations" with "friend" and "ally" America, would "not be a party to any scheme that will injure the United States." There had been no negotiations on military assistance from Peking, Bhutto asserted. Then he went on to belittle the handful...
...that many Eastern European students are bored with propaganda, restricted literature and limited travel. "We are young and cannot always think only of building socialism," says a Rumanian youth. "It is a fact," says a Czech student, "that the only attractive currents for our generation are coming from the Western part of the world. Here they tell us we are a new generation building a new world; then they insist we dance a folk dance two centuries old." As a consequence, Eastern European girls prefer the watusi, the jerk, and big-beat music...
...youth feel a sense of utter pessimism, a rejection of any kind of political commitment," complains one Communist elder. "They doubt the meaning of positive effort. Their only real interest is sex." Youthful Yugoslav Author Mihajlo Mihajlov recently wrote President Tito that any fears that reading Western literature could "infect" Mihajlov with a "foreign ideology" are unfounded. His proof: "I have been reading Communist literature since childhood, and I still fail to find any sympathy for Communism...