Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...anyway. By depending so heavily on his role as Commander in Chief, the President has committed himself to a new rationale for his actions in Indochina-a rationale that simultaneously says too little and too much. The imprecision implies, rightly or wrongly, an uncertainty of purpose that could return to trouble his future choices in Viet...
...festival of flags and fireworks, of fun and fundamental verities -an effort to rise above the divided present by a conscious return to the litanies and liturgy of the American past. By the thousands, Americans responded to the invitation to an old-fashioned U.S. birthday, trooping to the center of Washington carrying their miniature Old Glorys and their campstools, their sandwiches and their thermos bottles. They gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial, where so many others have assembled in protest, to bear witness that it was their country too, a country more right than wrong. Inevitably, a few hundred...
...Communist country, the U.S. had contributed more help than fraternal Russia. Three days after Mrs. Nixon left Peru, giant Antonov An-22 cargo ships began winging from Moscow to Lima, carrying 100 prefab houses, road-building machines, 200 beds and helicopters to be used in remote areas. On her return flight, Mrs. Nixon had hinted at this anticipated effort: "We're going to have competition in this. That's good -I welcome that kind of competition...
...prepared for the return flight home, Mrs. Nixon pledged that the United States "will continue to help until everything is rosy once again." Her trip perhaps could not alter the realties of Peru-U.S. relations, but her personal gesture contrasted with the Soviets' opportunistic bid for the good will of Peru. As President Velasco observed: "To have President Nixon send his wife here means more to me than if he had sent the whole American Air Force...
Died. The Maharajah of Jaipur, 58, one of India's princely ex-rulers, who until independence in 1947 ranked among the world's richest men; of a heart attack, while playing polo; in Cirencester, England. In return for his throne, the government granted him an income-tax-free stipend of $240,000 a year and, though that was scarcely enough to maintain five palaces and 200 elephants, the Maharajah continued to support the string of polo ponies of which he was so fond...