Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of forces will have to be overcome before the old enmities are resolved, however. Each country is suspicious of the other's use of American aid, claiming that when the U.S. strengthens one nation it endangers the other. On April tenth, Pakistani-owned Sabre jets downed an Indian reconaissance plane, an incident which did much to arouse Indian ill-will. Disputes over division of the Indus Basin and control of Kashmir have yet to be settled and there still exists distrust among Indian politicians of the military dictatorship of Ayub Khan's government, its absence of parties, elections...
...fact that both India and Pakistan are admitting that differences have mellowed will ease American foreign policy problems in the Near East. Nixon's proposals for aid are indicative of the new respect India is gaining in American eyes as a bastion of freedom, "the battleground of democracy" as he phrased it. Ideally, India would become a little more like Pakistan in its resolute anticommunism and Pakistan more like India in its democracy--thereby ending the triangle of suspicion which has existed between these two powers and the United States...
...typical example of the provincialism which so often characterizes Senate conservatives, it is a depressing case of their inability to adapt themselves to the year 1959. American-made equipment for teaching science has long been almost unbelievably expensive. Schools which are neither rich, nor equipped with ingenious teachers who can hand-build teaching equipment, are frequently forced by the costs to curtail some of their science teaching, or to do it with inadequate demonstrations...
...Soviet-made devices which precipitated the current controversy are standard throughout most of the Soviet Union, which is one of the reasons for their lower cost. They are also slightly simpler and less flexible than their American counterparts. But the cries of "dumping" and "unfair competition" raised by Bridges, Keating, and Hill are not reflections of the facts of the case, but distortions based on the old American idea that nobody can defeat American free enterprise in free competition...
...traditional argument that American industry should be protected in case there is a war simply does not hold here. The instruments can be produced by companies with little experience in the field, even if some immediate and overwhelming need did develop--an improbable prospect anyway...