Word: battlefront
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposals are original. His answer to poverty boils down basically to jobs, which is roughly what everyone else is saying, but unlike many other liberals, he opposes a guaranteed annual income. "To give priority to income payments," he argues, "would be to admit defeat on the critical battlefront of creating jobs." He wants to raise social-security benefits and finance part of the increase from general revenue. He wants better housing and welfare programs. His ideas about how to finance all this are debatable. Tax loopholes must be closed, he says, starting with a minimum 20% levy on all income...
...Korea's Demilitarized Zone as the "forgotten front." After the recent military buildup on both sides of the zone and the expansion of North Korean terrorism, few Americans stationed there feel forgotten any longer. Though it hardly resembles its Vietnamese counterpart, the Korean DMZ has become an active battlefront...
...August 1944, Morgenthau visited the European battlefront. In Whitehall and in Dwight Eisenhower's SHAEF headquarters, he discovered with "misgivings" and "sharp disagreement" that plans were afoot to administer a conquered Germany not as a madhouse full of psychopathic killers but as a defeated nation in need of rebuilding. Like many other Americans, Morgenthau believed that only by destroying Germany's ability to wage war, through elimination of its industry, could the first steps toward "re-educating" the German people begin. The Nazis, he believed, were only surface villains (for them, Morgenthau preferred firing squads to war-crimes...
...five times last week. During one skirmish at the mouth of the Suez Canal, the irritated Israelis finally wheeled up tanks and mortars and bombarded the Egyptian resort town of Port Tewfic, killing 44 and wounding 170 others. Two days later, Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol flew to the Suez battlefront and told his troops that "we must be on our guard and hold the positions and frontiers that our forces have reached." Said Eshkol bluntly, "There is no better border than this canal...
...into effect and new textbooks written and printed, Red Chinese education is bound to be chaotic. Already Mao's revolution is producing its own backlash among the youth-a new hippie-type, dropout group that Shanghai newspapers are castigating as "wanderers": "Instead of fighting on the battlefront, they wander around school campuses, parks and streets; they spend their time in swimming pools and playing chess and cards. They take an attitude of nonintervention in the struggle." But Mao's men tend to give such wanderers short shrift. The aim of education is preparation for political action, and Maoist...