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...West Germans would much rather stay home. They have business interests of their own to develop in the Arab Middle East and do not want to incur Arab hostility. In such an event they fear that Nasser's revenge might be to recognize Communist East Germany, which would compel Chancellor Adenauer to make good on his threat to break off relations with any nation that recognizes the East German government...
...East. They have said that they will not tolerate control of Cyprus by Greece, a country which they fear might, at some change of government, easily become neutralist. Cyprus is only 40 miles from the Turkish mainland, and governs the southern approaches to that country. A neutralist Cyprus would compel the Turks to reorient their whole defense...
While the insurance industry argued, the Securities & Exchange Commission last week joined the fracas, seeking to compel the only company now selling the new annuities to the general public to register with the SEC. Three days later, top insurance men thronged a hearing room in the New Jersey state senate and wrangled over three bills which have already received state assembly approval to legalize sale of variable annuities by insurance companies in New Jersey...
Judith Hearne is an old maid whose soul drifts like flotsam on a landlocked sea of Irish malice. It is the impressive feat of First Novelist Brian Moore, an Irish-born Montreal newspaperman, to compel the reader to follow the course of this human driftwood to its last miserable beach. Author Moore believes with G. K. Chesterton of his native city that...
...eliminate these obstacles the Administration must yield considerably. It must change its strategic classifications to release commodities which do not directly and significantly contribute to Soviet strength. Accompanying these releases should be a stipulation tying Soviet purchase demands to American export items, to compel Russia to accept consumer items if she is to receive newly-released goods from...