Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter. A hypermil-itant, fanatical minipower such as North Korea does not feel the restraints that are imposed upon the Soviet Union or the U.S. It has no interest in maintaining the tradition of freedom of the seas for its own minuscule coastal navy, nor does it carry the burden of an atomic arsenal. Past masters of propaganda, the North Koreans can be expected to wring the maximum insult from the Pueblo affair. North Korea proclaimed that Kim's soldiers "are renewing their resolve to repulse the U.S. imperialist aggressors at one stroke, if the enemy dares pounce upon...
Tightfisted Buyers. It wasn't easy. Expansion-minded Sunset was saddled with several white-elephant projects and mountainous debts ($130 million last June). To reduce that burden, Rozet persuaded lenders to stretch out some loans and cancel others in return for undeveloped acreage. Last November he put $50 million of Sunset's realty holdings up for auction in Los Angeles, but buyers proved so tightfisted that he accepted bids for only $6,000,000 worth. That netted Sunset a mere $300,000 above the $5,700,000 debt on the properties involved. But the company still had some...
...North Vietnamese soldiers now sent South are members of the Lao Dong (Communist Party) or its labor youth affiliates-almost double the number of card-carrying troopers three years ago. Between propaganda drumbeats, the recruits practice marching with rock-filled rucksacks to ready them for the 73-lb. burden of gear and ammunition each must carry for as long as six months down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Banjo-and-songfests brighten recruit training, and each squad gets a regular issue of a deck of cards-with the stern warning that it is not to be used for gambling...
...that eight of Dallas' banned films had subsequently been on television in full view of any twelve-year-old. Adding that six cities were already copying the Dallas law, he asked that it be thrown out. If it is not, he said, it would be an "intolerable burden" on the film industry. The court will hear no further argument on the subject, but will render a decision some time before recessing in June...
...funding is irreversible. The Government supplied nearly one-fourth of the $16.8 billion that all colleges spent last year; by 1975, he predicted, this may climb to 50%. Eventually, he suggested, private donors will give up, or support only highly specialized projects, while federal taxes pick up the main burden and local and state revenues meet the expanding needs of the lower levels of education...