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...fell on Hiroshima. In return for that, they demanded that both sides declare a "voluntary" ban on smaller, underground nuclear explosions, which are virtually undetectable without inspection. Meanwhile, said the Soviets, they would heed a U.S. call to work jointly toward better detection methods. To the U.S., the Soviet carrot looked tasty. Russia seemed to be conceding that some sort of inspection was necessary and that existing blast-detection techniques needed improvement. Thus the U.S. decided to keep talking rather than resume testing...
...Carrot & Stick. "We must wage a decisive battle against the migration," cried Ulbricht a few weeks ago, admitting that this "organized slave trade" with other Western activities in West Berlin, costs East Germany "one billion marks annually." What bothers Ulbricht is satellite East Germany's lagging rate of industrial expansion; it was largely shortage of labor that forced Ulbricht to scrap East Germany's aircraft industry a few months ago. In desperation, the party is urging housewives to go into the factories, and schoolchildren often "donate" a day of work in the fields...
Even some Australians agree that Melbourne lies somewhere "behind the black stump" or, in current American, that it is a district of Squaresville. But Melbourne has its hipsters too, most notably a curvy, carrot-haired former choir singer named Diana Trask. Promoted from choir to nightclubs, Diana used to do Waltzing Matilda for visiting Americans. Discovered by Frank Sinatra and soon signed up by Columbia Records in New York, she has cut a series of briskly selling singles: Matilda, Long Ago Last Summer, Our Language of Love, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. Now, with her first album...
Intermittently, Trujillo proffered bits of the carrot to go with the whip. He reminded the church that he was building a $3,500,000 basilica and a $4,000,000 Catholic University in Higüey. He also warned that the church by inciting a rebellion against him was asking for a Castro. As the pressure built up and church attendance fell off under the Trujillo scrutiny, the decision was made to bend-or at least appear...
What lay behind the two masks that Communism presented to the world last week? Some guessed that it was part of a global carrot-and-stick exercise, a maneuver planned in Moscow to befuddle the West and destroy its sense of strategic purpose. But many Western diplomats and intelligence agencies believed it more likely that Mao's troublemaking had purely Chinese roots...