Word: communique
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...communiqué (see box), and in fact the whole conference, was a minor triumph for the U.S. policy of the middle way in Viet Nam. "We set out with modest objectives," said a member of the U.S. delegation, "and I think we achieved them." The principal achievement was to avert a schism between the hard-lining nations on Asia's mainland, South Korea, Thailand and Viet Nam ("The ones in sight of the gallows," as one U.S. aide puts it), and the safer, softer-lining insular nations, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines...
...Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution needed a bang, and the announcement of the missile-borne nuclear test filled that need. The test showed that Chinese science is "advancing at even greater speed under the brilliant illumination of Mao Tse-tung's thought," crowed Peking's characteristically pompous communiqu...
...nine Communist nations* gathered for a secret summit and a show of Soviet spaceshots. Not long ago, such a gathering would inevitably result in barbed blasts at the West accompanied by the rattle of rockets or the slap of brick on mortar. Not so last week. In their bland communiqué, there was not one howl at the "imperialists," not one threat of "burial." Indeed, the haste with which the meeting was called implied a response to Washington initiatives rather than a new move by Moscow. What the Reds talked about remained a mystery. Presumably, the question of coping with...
...they avoided civilian targets, unloaded on army headquarters, the airport, and the command post of Royalist Army Strongman General Kouprasith Abhay. At the same time, a military radio station began broadcasting a declaration from coup-happy Laos' latest "Revolutionary Committee." The government had become too divided, proclaimed the communiqué, and the fault lay with the Royalists. Therefore, it went on, Kouprasith and a handful of other right-wing generals must be fired and replaced by neutralist officers...
...final communiqué, Peru promised to help find international funds to link Bolivia to the sea by road. The communiqué also provided that both countries would 1) improve the existing railroad service between La Paz and Peru's southern coast, 2) "formalize and enlarge" an agreement covering free navigation on the waters of the Amazon Basin, 3) discuss the possibility of a pipeline across Peru to transport Bolivian petroleum to a Peruvian coastal port...