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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leverage. Opposition to the weapons trade will adversely affect U.S. efforts to even its balance of payments-the major reason for the Administration's decision in 1960 to switch from out right grants to sales of weapons. Moreover, say Administration officials, such sales in general help to correct power imbalances, counter Soviet influence in the Middle East and elsewhere, and allow the U.S. "to use what leverage we have to get countries to minimize their purchases." In fact, the arms trade with underdeveloped countries amounts to only 10% of the nation's sales of weapons...
...said Thieu, was only a wartime snafu. And the person most responsible for the foul-up was not a government official; he was the chairman of the central cam paign committee, whom the civilian candidates themselves had appointed. The chairman had failed to give the province chief the correct information. But even though the reception committee found itself at the wrong airstrip, Thieu continued, it rushed to Dong Ha once it got the word. If the candidates had waited only 15 minutes longer, they would have been properly convoyed to the rally...
...problems of my city are many and complex, but the city administration under Mayor Addonizio has made a real effort to correct them and to improve the living conditions of all the people of Newark. As a fire officer who was in the streets during the riot, I believe I can speak for the great majority of men in the Fire Department. We are all most anxious to put the past to rest and to begin to rebuild, both spiritually and physically, our fine city...
...moving part of moving pictures that interests Kelly, and to keep the action hopping on the set, he will often shout out the desired rhythms like a ballet master: "One-two-and-three-and-four" His own movement is jitterbug. He will bound off his chair to correct a camera angle, touch up the scenery, or show an actress how to swivel her hips. "Actors like to be told how to act, not shown," says Matthau, "but with Kelly, his great body movements reveal what he wants...
...attacked by the Federal and State enforcement agencies. Certainly, high unemployment among Negro male adults constitutes a serious danger in the Roxbury-South End areas. However well-intentioned the efforts of the State and Federal officials may be to end job discrimination, these efforts have not been sufficient to correct this condition...