Word: counterweights
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...policies toward not only the Soviet Union but friendly and uncommitted nations as well. Massive retaliation, in substance the doctrine of both Democratic and Republican administrations, has laid down the conditions in which our global strategy operates. Until now, the United States has sought to manage this global nuclear counterweight alone. The harmful results of this monopoly have been clear--fear and complacency within NATO, breakdowns of common policy such as Suez, and a menacing ambiguity on the shared problems of colonialism...
...year-old King Feisal, and perhaps his Hashemite cousin, Hussein of Jordan, too. Together these three Kings control a huge hunk of the Arab Middle East and the vast bulk of its economic resources. If Saud can submerge his old feuds with the Hashemites, an effective counterweight to Nasser (and to his lone ally, Syria) will have been built up in the Arab world itself...
...more than two years. The Reds' idea of a settlement is to be incorporated into the royal government, and the princely Premier had shown signs of falling for it. The Reds kept pressing. Souphanouvong argued: "To be really neutral, Laos should accept economic aid from China as a counterweight to American aid." Royal Premier Souvanna Phouma, who had come back empty-handed from a trip to Peking last year, replied: "How could we accept what has not been offered to us?" He knew better than anyone else that almost the whole Laotian budget, save for some revenue from legal...
...Prop & Counterweight. Until a little more than a year ago, business had no effective voice in Perón's councils of state. Perón came to power as the business-baiting leader of Argentina's workers, and he made the General Labor Confederation (C.G.T.) the main prop of his regime. In labor-management disputes. Perón's government and courts almost always sided with the C.G.T...
...creation of the C.G.E. in 1953, as a counterweight to the 6,000,000-member C.G.T.. fitted in with Perón's vague variety of Mussolinian corporate-state philosophy, but as usual his reasons were practical rather than philosophical. By setting up a business federation he expected to 1) broaden and stabilize the base of his power, and 2) boost the nation's industrial output. Said Perón, in a recent speech sounding remarkably different from the rabble-rousing Perón of yesteryear: "We may get some results if we try to persuade people...