Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known that his government has stashed away six months' supplies of fuel, food and medicine, valued at $180 million. If it came to a showdown, there were always the three air lanes from the West along which the airlift planes once shuttled, and along which Pan American, Air France...
...bread, Kassem last week supplied it with a circus: the windup of the farcical trial of Fadhil Jamali, ex-Foreign Minister and, on one occasion. Prime Minister of Iraq in the old regime of Nuri asSaid. Fadhil Jamali, 55, an honest, simple-living pro-Western politician with an American wife and three children, had no chance at all. Of the five members of the military tribunal, only one had any experience in law. The trial sessions were broadcast on radio and TV, and held at night to ensure a packed courtroom, where staged demonstrations against the defendants were permitted...
...There was sake, of course," reported the disgruntled American tourist in Tokyo last week, "but the girls seemed most interested in plying us with highballs. 'Let's dance!' one of them said, stubbing out her cigarette, and we all cha-chaed to a hi-fi phonograph. When we finished eating, another girl with a horse's laugh, said, 'Let's play baseball.' So we all got up and pretended to be hitting, catching and running: the object of the game was to bump rumps. Later the girls offered to dance for us. They...
...million last year to import the rest. Frondizi saw only one solution. Risking the wrath of nationalistic Peronistas (and nationalists in his own Radical Party), he negotiated $1 billion worth of development contracts with foreign oil companies, mostly from the U.S. (TIME, Aug. 4). Signed up were Pan American International Oil Co., Union Oil Co., Lane-Wells Co. and Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades...
...president of sprawling W. R. Grace & Co., which is the No. 1 banker, shipping line, manufacturer and trader on South America's West Coast, last week turned his businessman's brain and long Latin American experience to the worrisome problem of U.S.-Latin American relations, suggested some concrete ways to improve them. Speaking to alumni of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Joseph Peter Grace Jr.. 45, noted the hemisphere's close ties, both economic ("It is the area where we have the largest direct private investment abroad-almost...