Word: blocs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most irritating of the AEC's original restrictions involved so-called "controls in the national interest" which would have given the AEC power to control all exchange of information between the CEA staff and Soviet bloc scientists. The AEC proposal required that no technical information be released to Soviet bloc nations unless a Soviet scientist agreed in advance to release "equally valuable information to the United States." Nobody has yet figured out how to determine "equally valuable information...
After long negotiations the requirement was deleted, but substituted for it was a clause which reads: "Requests for unpublished information from foreign nations may be filled, but, when appropriate, information will be requested in return." Thus Harvard is no longer required to request equally valuable information from Soviet bloc nations, but Wiggins admits that "the ambiguity of the phrase could still hinder exchanges of information between the accelerator and foreign scientists...
Actually, the Administration hoped to turn Clay's critical report to its own advantage. As usual, the anti-aid congressional bloc, headed by Louisiana's Democratic Representative Otto Passman, is out after the program with a meat ax. Now the Administration can point to the Clay report as proof that its own reduced requests are realistic and should not be cut further...
...Canal, and from the biggest crop, cotton. In the process, the nation has spent its savings. Egypt's foreign-exchange reserves, which stood at a billion dollars after World War II, have dwindled to scarcely $10 million. The consequence is an increasing dependence on foreign aid. The Communist bloc has committed itself to $700 million in economic aid since 1955, and Russia is footing the bill for the famed High Dam at Aswan, which by 1972 will increase the arable land of Egypt from 6,000,000 acres to 8,000,000 acres and supply 10 billion...
There are currently 1137 foreign students enrolled at Harvard. Of these, only 125 are undergraduates--within this relatively small bloc, isolation is quite often overcome by the mere existence of the dormitory and House systems. Contacts are easily made, activities are easily entered, and the notion of being a foreigner is some-what overshadowed by the "esprit" of belonging to the residential unit...