Word: armaments
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...sect promotes its cause-as it does in Japan-with a revivalist fervor that suggests an Oriental version of Moral Re-Armament. Its Youth Division has a flashy fife-and-drum corps replete with majorettes. Its thrice-weekly newspaper, the World Tribune, is filled with ardent testimonials of what conversion has meant. Every member is expected to help expand the rolls by the practice of shakubuku*-proselytizing -wherever he goes. Those who can afford it are urged to make one of the chartered-jet pilgrimages to the head temple of Taisekiji in Japan, which more than 10,000 members visit...
...that a slew of senior State Department officials have chipped in to re-elect Rooney. Among them: Angier Biddle Duke, Ambassador to Denmark, $100; Perry Culley, Consul General in Paris, $300; Charles Manning, Consul General in Bermuda, $1,000; William Foster, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Dis armament Agency, $300; Michel Cie-plinski, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administrative Affairs, $500; Frank Meyer, Special Assistant for Congressional Relations, $400. In all, 13 State Department officials and the wife of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration, Idar Rimstad, contributed $4,175 to the Rooney coffers...
...futile for each of us to spend $4 billion, $40 billion or $400 billion-and at the end of all the spending ... to be relatively at the same point of balance on the security scale that we are now . . . What the world requires is not a new race toward armament, but a new race toward reasonableness...
...some hints of coolness toward Cairo and toward the fanatical Baathists who dominate neighboring Syria, the junta gave no indication of whether it wishes to resume diplomatic relations with the U.S. or loosen Iraq's considerable ties with Moscow, which has given it 1,000 technicians and enough armament to replace the June war losses. The junta took over the property of 26 ousted officials and gave a clear warning against corruption by jailing the Thief of Baghdad. That action in itself persuaded many Iraqis that the new regime may be an improvement if it survives long enough...
OUTER SPACE, 1964. The Geneva conference originated a ban on the nuclear armament of orbiting space vehicles, which was supported by the U.N. General Assembly...