Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corrosion" issue turned prosperity from the world's wonder to a road to wickedness and decadence. But the issue gained strength from general uneasiness about the U.S. lag in space and missilery. Some hard-boiled Democratic pros, mindful of Adlai Stevenson's disaster when he tried to discuss the issue of national "drift" in 1956, were trying to avoid such words as "purpose" and "softness" in favor of Candidate Stuart Symington's line: "The people are not too flabby to do the job; they're just being misled." Yet Democrats could not convincingly fault Dwight Eisenhower...
Once President Eisenhower managed to eliminate the deadline from the Berlin ultimatum, the urge to discuss Germany had evaporated amongst everyone but the British. As French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville put the German problem bluntly last week: "The best thing for the West is to maintain the status quo. It is to Russia's interest that there be changes. We are not in a hurry to get to that point...
...political climate between the two nations improved this year, and after months of polite suggestions from Cairo that talks resume, the Sudan's military strongman, Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud, finally sent a new delegation north to discuss the matter. The Sudan had a reason of its own to settle with Egypt: it, too, was planning some big irrigation projects, could get World Bank loans only if the Nile dispute was ended...
...Brussels, Parliament was called back into special session to discuss the riots. Minister of the Congo Auguste De Schrijver announced that he would visit the Congo himself this month to confer with Congolese leaders. "I ask, nay I implore, all concerned to renew the dialogue between Belgians and Congolese," said De Schrijver plaintively. The Socialist opposition wanted De Schrijver and the government to be ready to negotiate independence now with the Africans. "Why wait for elections when you know the major parties will boycott it?" demanded Socialist Leader Léon Collard...
...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Filmed in India, this sobering documentary is a careful study of one of the sociologists' most serious problems: The Population Explosion. Indian officials and Indian and U.S. religious leaders discuss the significance of the startling (49 million a year) growth in the world's population...