Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Terrible Twins. Early this month the Laborite Daily Herald (circ. 1,464,773) bannered a new charge against der Alte: DR A. JOINS A-BOMB CLUB IN SECRET. Burden of this "scoop" by Herald Air Correspondent Gilbert Carter was that West German money and scientists were helping to build France's Abomb. Outraged, West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss denounced Carter's story as a phony, invited Carter to inspect West German research centers-and the French-German Ballistics Research Institute in Alsace-to see for himself. For telltale days Carter hesitated; when he finally did accept...
...TIME, Oct. 13) depends on his assurances to the poor Moslem population that they have a prosperous future to share in economic and political equality with Metropolitan Frenchmen. Without the wealth of the Sahara-and the power it could furnish Algeria-the Constantine Plan would be an intolerable financial burden on France, and an unredeemable promise. Says Jacques Soustelle: "It is here in this desert region that the destiny of the French Republic will be settled...
Shaping up is a drive not to pare but to share the aid burden with Germany, Britain, France, and even some of the underdeveloped nations. This would be done by creating an International Development Association, dubbed "Ida." Ida was introduced to last fall's meeting of the World Bank (TIME, Oct. 20), but failed to get far because the U.S. did not push it with vigor. Now the U.S. expects to plump hard for Ida at the World Bank's September meeting in Washington, set it up with initial capital of $1 billion (one-third contributed...
...monopoly on progress; foreign steel tycoons are also fully aware of the need to forge ahead, are engaged in a race whose stake is bigger markets, more efficiency, lower costs. The race requires enormous amounts of money, especially for the U.S., which carries the front runner's burden of keeping the world's biggest steel industry up to the times...
...BISHOPS, "both of the Eastern and of the Western Church, who as rulers of the Christian people bear, together with us, the burden of the day and the heat," the Pope expressed sympathy for "the unhappy falling away of so many of your children, who are tricked by the wiles of error...