Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FOREST GRIEVES Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Western Illinois University Macomb
...remind those persons who are beating their breasts about the money spent on the moon landing instead of on poverty and city slums that, had Isabella waited to clean up the slums of Palos, Columbus would never have discovered the Western Hemisphere. And that voyage did more to alleviate the suffering of the world's poor than anything that had come before...
...long after Eagle's successful touchdown, the Soviet space vehicle Luna 15 met with a less fortunate fate. The unmanned ship dropped from her lunar orbit and headed for the moon's surface. Telemetered data picked up by Western observatories indicated that Luna had hit too hard to survive. To most space experts, the failure was one more proof that the Russians are months if not years behind the U.S. in space technology...
...carry out its recommendations, the Duncan report suggested that the foreign service divide its operation into two spheres: the "area of concentration" and a second-class "outer area." The first consists of major countries of Western Europe and North America-plus a few others, like Japan and Australia -that are "advanced industrial countries with which we are likely to be increasingly involved." In these, the committee recommended, the foreign service should continue a full range of activity. In the "outer area"-meaning most of the rest of the world-its report could find no justification for large information missions...
...proceedings against him lasted barely ten minutes, and within the hour the prisoner was locked inside a heavily guarded cell in prison. Only then did police announce last week that they had placed charges against the suspected killer of Tom Mboya, the pro-Western Minister for Economic Planning and Development who was gunned down outside a Nairobi pharmacy last month...