Word: accesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Originally, they had viewed erratic Premier Patrice Lumumba with alarm, closed the Congo's airports to his men, and refused him access to the radio station to stifle his dangerous demagoguery; now they seemed resigned to accepting his return to power. Originally, the U.N. had urged Belgian civilian experts (but not troops) to stay and help rebuild the Congo; now they were issuing strident warnings that Belgians were unwelcome...
Castro's strategy was simple: with access to U.S. suppliers cut off, trade ties to Canada would be preserved as a means of getting some of the embargoed parts and materials needed to keep Cuba's U.S.-oriented economy going until it could switch to Iron Curtain suppliers. For their own reasons, Canada's government and businessmen were willing to go along-at least for the moment. Said the Toronto Globe and Mail: "Diefenbaker's statement has served notice to the world that Canadian trade policy is not made in Washington." As for the businessmen, President...
...York is a community of minorities. Southern anti-Catholic propaganda has angered and dismayed all minority elements in the city. Writing in the New York Post last Friday, Max Lerner seemed to sum up the sentiment of many New Yorkers on the religious question: "If the idea of equal access receives a set-back in 1960 for Kennedy as a Catholic, it will also be a setback for every minority group...
...certain exports, in the name of "economic self-defense." Specifically, the U.S. is increasingly concerned at the vast arms depots (mostly from Belgium and Czechoslovakia) collecting in Cuba, far more than necessary for the island's own self-defense. It therefore wants to limit Cuba's access to such paramilitary items as auto and aircraft parts, tires, tools, special chemicals, oil-cracking catalysts, etc. It will not issue a blanket embargo (food and medicines will be exempt), but will draw up a list of restricted items, hoping by that means to discourage Castro from launching or backing...
...Negroes in 16 Southern states, according to one recent estimate, some 3,000,000 have no access to public libraries...