Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Legal Tangles. At week's end, partially as a result of the attacks on the PanLibHonCo nations. Costa Rica canceled the registration of 128 foreign-owned ships in arrears on tax payments, said it would go ahead with plans to abandon all convenience-flag registration at the end of this month. Greek shipowners agreed to negotiate with the Greek seamen's union for more jobs; U.S. unions said that they will continue to boycott...
...Foster Dulles, who had unduly alarmed West Berliners with legalistic press-conference talk about dealing with East German puppet Communists as "agents" of the U.S.S.R. in "perfunctory, routine matters," backed a strong statement that the U.S. was "solemnly committed'' to West Berlin's defense, would never abandon "the people of West Berlin to hostile domination." Vice President Nixon, visiting Britain (see The Vice-Presidency), proclaimed that "we already have two Germanys-Khrushchev would give us three," and sent a message to West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt: "I, as well as the other members...
...have become increasingly disturbed about the six-nation Common Market, the economic bloc of 160 million customers which France. Germany, Italy and Benelux will launch on New Year's Day. From the start, the British refused to join the Common Market on the ground that they could not abandon their present intricate system of Commonwealth tariff preferences. At the same time, British industry dreaded the prospect of finding its products excluded from the Common Market. As a halfway house, Harold Macmillan two years ago plumped for a 17-nation European Free Trade Area to supplement the Common Market...
Dreaming of empire, France's Napoleon III sent mild-mannered, well-intentioned Austrian Archduke Maximilian to rule Mexico while the U.S. was busy fighting its Civil War. But Napoleon had to abandon "Emperor" Maximilian to the advancing forces of Mexican Patriot Benito Juárez, and the pathetic Austrian went gallantly before a firing squad in Mexican shirt and cowboy trousers, dividing his few remaining gold coins among his executioners...
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