Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handful of strongly fortified district villages, and the province towns of Pleiku, Kontum and Ban Me Thuot, they still range at will through the mountainous countryside. Since the Viet Cong blew out three of Route 19's bridges some six weeks ago, the highlands' vital western tier of towns was accessible only by air. Despite an airlift that brought hundreds of tons a week into Pleiku, supplies were growing critically short when Saigon decided that Route 19 had to be reopened at any price...
...during the 1920s and '30s, Li early urged a united front of Nationalists and Communists to fight the invading Japanese war machine, gave the weary Chinese their first major victory at Taierh-chwang in 1938. In 1948, as the civil war raged, Li fought China's first Western-style political campaign and nosed out President Chiang's favorite for the vice-presidency; months later, Chiang stepped aside to let Li have a chance at seeking peace with the Communists, then within sight of total victory. When Nationalist resistance collapsed, Li, a longtime critic of the Chiang regime...
...thirds approve the idea of a West German army, and virtually all support participation in the Western alliance. An overwhelming majority (80%) consider reunification Germany's most urgent question today...
...painting. Kafka is all the rage, and more American movies than Russian are running in Bucharest's cinemas; the Broadway play Rhinoceros was a theater season sellout, and not just because lonesco is a Rumanian. Last week, as if for the edification of his distinguished guests, Ceausescu permitted Western newspapers to go on public sale for the first time-excepting of course Paris' Le Monde, which has been available for some months to the East's Gaullists...
Flexible Tools. Most of the shackles, of course, remain in place. Party dogma is still sacrosanct; when newspaper discussion comes too close to sensitive issues, the party simply chokes it off. While most Western broadcasts are no longer jammed (the jamming equipment has been moved eastward to blank out Radio Peking), non-Communist Western newspapers are still banned in Russia. When the magazine Kommunist recently urged the Russian press to increase its news coverage, its aim was not so much to free the press as to meet the competition. "We have to admit that bourgeois news agencies have achieved...