Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...variety-was finished in Djakarta, for the moment if not for keeps. At every government gathering, hard-faced army officers monitored the overly jolly goings on. Even President Sukarno, puffy-cheeked and perspiring, was forced onto the defensive. Warning against the danger of Indonesia's suddenly becoming pro-Western (and anti-Sukarno), he pursued one of his own quaint theories to its illogical conclusion: "If they didn't try to crush us, the Western powers wouldn't be nekolim" (a Sukarno acronym for neocolonialist imperialism...
...hope by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in January 1963. "Ça sera fini [it will be ended]," sniffed De Gaulle contemptuously some months ago. This hardly bothers the West Germans, who have seen the treaty's value dwindle. The Germans realize that they are the only nation in the Western alliance with unresolved border problems, hence the only nation likely to use "nukes" in passion. What does bother them are the recent blunt remarks attributed to De Gaulle that he is now dead set against Bonn's having control of any strategic nuclear weaponry, or even engaging in nuclear...
Visit by Erhard. That dropped the "nuclear sharing" ball back into Washington's hands, where divergent approaches to the future shape of the Western alliance have yet to be resolved. With West Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard due to arrive in the U.S. around the end of November and anxious to learn how, when and if the U.S. plans to allow a German voice in NATO nuclear strategy, Washington was still talking about the all-but-abandoned Multilateral Force concept (rejected by De Gaulle from the start). Britain's variant Atlantic Nuclear Force, and a "select committee...
Born in the little western mountain town of Maricao, he escaped the capital-city fixation that besets so many Latin American physicians. He resented the fact that in 1934 San Juan had 35% of the island's doctors while most of the communities had none. Working his way up through the Commonwealth's health department, Dr. Arbona spent years organizing Puerto Rico's scattered towns and villages into five medical regions, each with a modern medical center...
...very least, to delay it for 18 months. Three smaller railroads, which would be left out of the merger, pleaded for a similar delay, complaining bitterly that an early marriage of the two goliaths would ruin their own bargaining attempts to join up with the Norfolk & Western...