Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...move was designed to tackle test suspension on a step-by-step basis and thus salvage something from the three-power nuclear ban conference here. The Western powers hope agreement can be reached on the easiest part of the problem first, with attempts in later negotiations to widen the ban so as to include outer space and underground blasts...
...your March 23 issue you report that Alexander L. Guterma "won a round in his battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission when it rescinded the ban on trading in Bon Ami, a Guterma company." The [trading ban] was removed on the petition of this company [which emphasized that] the present management has no association whatsoever with members of prior management, including Alexander Guterma...
...Gaulle, "what a narrow strip would remain between the River Meuse and the ocean in which to deploy and use the means of the West." In Bonn, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was highly incensed by reports that Britain's idea of an armed freeze was one that would ban nuclear weapons for the West German army. "These British!" snorted Adenauer. "They should learn that they cannot lead the Continent any longer...
...Washington for high-level briefings on his part in the project. President Eisenhower was planning to announce in late August the U.S.'s willingness to suspend nuclear tests for one year and try to work out a test-detection agreement with the Soviet Union. Before entering into test-ban negotiations, the U.S. needed to try for answers to some vital questions: What would happen when a nuclear explosion took place in a near-vacuum 300 miles above the earth's surface? What were the prospects of coping with oncoming enemy ballistic missiles by exploding nuclear warheads high above...
...biggest and loudest of the pending "national security" arguments concerns heavy electrical equipment. A ban on all Government buying of foreign hydraulic turbines and virtually all other equipment is demanded by General Electric, Westinghouse, Allis-Chalmers and other U.S. makers. They contend that U.S. equipment is better and breaks down less, that foreign builders in wartime could not supply parts and services to bomb-damaged U.S. power plants. They admit that they cannot compete with low-wage (about one-third the U.S. average) foreign producers, but plead that the U.S. should support the domestic industry to keep its huge machines...