Word: cementation
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Since the Communists launched their drive to penetrate the Middle East last year, six Iron Curtain countries have made agreements with Syria to ship industrial goods in exchange for Syria's surplus cotton. The Czechs have offered to build two cement plants, the East Germans a textile factory. Last week Syria voted $23 million to build an oil refinery at Horns. Next day the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey offered to build the refinery at its own expense. So low, however, was Russia's bid (reportedly $10 million) that the Syrians are considering approving both projects...
...government direction, and production was boosted to the point where Jamaica is now nearly self-sufficient. In trying to encourage manufacturing, the government granted special inducements to foreign capital to build local factories. Island plants now employ some 20,000 and satisfy much of Jamaica's needs for cement, shoes, clothes, soap, paint, canned goods, furniture...
...this adds up to a Soviet offensive whose purpose is to cement a world bloc of nations on the base of a common hostility to the capitalist U.S. Its leaders, marking out the whole grey world of neutral nations inside their "zone of peace," claim 1.5 billion people-almost two-thirds of humanity-on their side, and boldly redefine the opponents of Communism as an isolated, retreating minority. To the Asian nations they offer the comradeship of backwardness, the fraternity of poverty, the communality of agricultural nations seeking to industrialize themselves, and sympathetic stirring of old resentments against their colonial...
Most of the men in the small cement fortress near the Moroccan border were Moslem riflemen in French uniform, professionals and veterans who had fought for France in Europe and Indo-China. Only the officer in command and a scattering of other ranks were French. Among the 80 Moslems was Corporal Cheraf Abd el Krim, who in Indo-China had been captured by the Communist Viet Minh and then released...
...past, France's native troops have written a proud record for gallantry and their devotion to France. The dashing Spahis helped liberate Paris. The Tirailleurs Algeriens (the troops in the small cement fortress) fought at Monte Cassino and in Indo-China. Barefooted, pillaging Moroccan Goumiers were General Augustin Guillaume's crack force in Italy. Altogether, 100,000 of France's 400,000 troops in North Africa are Moslems. Said a French lieutenant: "This is their country, and the rebels are their countrymen. How can we trust them? All we can do is pack them tight with French...