Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...will make use of this information, now that the U-2 program has been compromised, is still the CIA's secret...
...delivery." This would mean that the U.S. would have to do away with its long-range rockets and bombers-which it is not prepared to do without ironclad assurance that the Russians would do likewise. Failing such an agreement, De Gaulle was determined to push ahead with his program to build a French H-bomb by next year. With 500,000 of his troops tied down in Algeria, De Gaulle was also unenthusiastic about another disarmament measure likely to be proposed: the long-discussed general reduction in conventional military forces...
...Gaulle's pet summit projects were just as unenthusiastically received by his colleagues. As one of his chief ploys, De Gaulle planned to challenge Khrushchev to cooperate with the West in a joint program of economic aid to underdeveloped nations. Both the U.S. and Britain feel that this would pervert and weaken Western aid programs. And De Gaulle's dream of a ban on arms shipments to such troubled areas as Africa is frowned on by the U.S., which argues that proud new nations will insist on getting defensive armaments somewhere-and it might as well be from...
Returning to Manhattan from his jungle clinic in northern Laos, Dr. Thomas Dooley, 33, cofounder of MEDICO (Medical International Cooperation), issued a glowing report that the program is now rolling strong in ten countries: "Local governments put up the hospitals and we are simply the people who run them." Asked about recent criticism that he is a publicity seeker, Dr. Tom quoted from "an old Chinese proverb": "When one lift head above crowd, bound to receive rotten fruit." Then Tom Dooley entered a Manhattan hospital to continue his own personal fight against disease, got a complete checkup on his progress...
World Wide 60 (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Report from Outer Space includes, among others, T. Keith Glennan, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and William Howells, Harvard anthropology professor. The program attempts to outline the why and wherefore of moon shots, deep space probes, weather satellites and astronauts...