Word: problem
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...crushing of the revolt in South Viet Nam: Tough, zealously anti-Communist President Diem seems to have won out again. But he has not solved the problem of Communist terrorism, he has ruled with rigged elections, a muzzled press and political re-education camps, and his prospering brothers and in-laws are his key advisers. The conditions that brought on the revolt still remain. See FOREIGN NEWS, Revolt at Dawn...
...looming problem for the new Administration came clear last week in the October employment figures. More people were holding jobs (67,490,000) than in any previous October-yet unemployment, which normally falls by 200,000 during the month, rose by 191,000 to 3,579,000. (The number of long-term unemployed-jobless for 15 weeks or more-increased from 800,000 to 1,000,000.) Apparent cause: more and more of the World War II crop of babies coming of working...
...election is over," he cried. "We need have no worries. A steady continuation of American policy will be maintained." A top French official worried privately about "the men around Kennedy-they seem overexcited about Africa and Asia. There's no one with a close connection with the European problem." But the French generally welcomed what they thought would be new initiatives from Washington, and Charles de Gaulle fired off a telegram that began "Welcome, Dear Partner...
...what precisely can U.S. college graduates do in Tanganyika, Indonesia, Argentina? In the private "Crossroads Africa" program last summer, students built schools, did manual labor. Senator Kennedy has mentioned building dams. But as Elliot Berg an economist at Harvard told the conference, Africa has no shortage of manpower. The problem is training and organizing the Africans to do the job themselves. So the need is for teachers-teachers of languages, mechanics and science, of public health and child care, of agricultural methods. Putting up a school-house is a useful and symbolic act, but the really urgent work...
...strong was his prestige at that time. He is only vaguely optimistic about later prospects, saying in his Postscript (written in 1959) that it is possible that de Gaulle "can impose an Algerian policy of peace upon the French army." The F.L.N. leaders, Aron points out, are the lesser problem; they trust de Gaulle more than any Premier of the Fourth Republic...