Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though all of them are over the usual draft cutoff age of 26. In addition, Hinckle is blind in one eye, Assistant Managing Editor Sol Stern has a medical deferment, and Art Director Dugald Stermer is married and a father...
Smaller Markets. The size of those U.S. exports and the effect of a cutoff made up the ammunition hurled at the Senate last week by a platoon of Cabinet members sent up the Hill by President Johnson. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman pointed out that one acre of every four of U.S. farmland grows food for export, and exports provide work for one out of every eight U.S. farmers. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall argued that oil import quotas should be less rigid in order to give the Government flexibility in maintaining the national security. Rusk cited some U.S. annual exports...
...which they had been crossing the Jordan. But the move was only symbolic. The Israelis put up no barriers, nor did they take down the receiving tents in which returning refugees have been greeted with orangeade and light lunches before getting free transportation to their homes. Despite the official cutoff, the bridges were still open; the refugees were still coming back...
...quietly withhold some flashy weapons, such as tanks and guns. But minor hardware and spare parts are the crucial materials which must be withheld in order to pressure the regime into calling elections. Opponents of a serious cutoff (Talbot is among them) offer three basic arguments; it could weaken the Greek defense, and hence, NATO; it could lead to civil war; and it is unnecessary since the junta is already moving to wards a new constitution...
...quietly shifted his allegiance from Red China to Russia, which is far more able to afford North Korea's aid requirements. Along the way, his government is going deeper and deeper into hock to Russia; without Russian fuel, all North Korean jets would be grounded and a complete cutoff in aid would probably cripple the country. Kim has also made a bitter enemy of Peking; wall posters have denounced him as "a traitor to the worker class and a disciple of Khrushchev" -a Communist leader that Kim could never abide...