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Word: war (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam War becomes the first in "history to be brought directly into the living room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Top of the Decade: Television | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

After the war in Viet Nam finally ends, what will be done to bind up the wounds and lift the impoverished economy of the whole region? Remarkably, much has already been accomplished. Leaders of four of the nations that share the Indo-Chinese peninsula-Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam-have buried deep political antagonisms and have been swept up in what they call the spirit of the Mekong. They envision a vast project to harness the Mekong River for power, irrigation and flood control; that could enable the region to grow enough food to feed much of Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: The Muddied Mekong | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...support than Lyndon Johnson did. Washington has shortsightedly refused South Viet Nam's request that the U.S. contribute one-fourth of the money to build a $22 million bridge across the Mekong in the southern delta. U.S. officials contend that security problems and the cost of Vietnamizing the war make bridge-building unrealistic now. They deny any change in policy, saying that Nixon is simply waiting for the war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: The Muddied Mekong | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...War between Israelis and Arabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Top of the Decade: The World | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...civil rights acts of 1964, 1965 and 1968, the most important legislative attacks on racial inequality since the post-Civil War Reconstruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Top of the Decade: The Law | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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