Word: deal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interesting. Americans are aghast when the Soviet Union issues the Brezhnev Doctrine. Why? The U.S., in 1823, announced to the world the Monroe Doctrine to support our own intervention, imperialism, and hands-off policy in this hemisphere. The Russians are simply learning from their equally ambitious counterpart how to deal with troublesome neighbors...
...isolated and can trade with other areas need not raise its own food, and in some cases should not. For example, it would be worse for us and for the Arabs for them to devote all their resources to growing pitifully little food rather than to producing a great deal of oil, trading a little of it for an abundance of food and the rest for whatever else they choose...
...open church. They don't want any church, because they have grown free enough, mature enough not to need it. They have the best of its values without its fears, its hang-ups, its commitments to bastard structures. They can live honestly in or out of community, deal with present poverty, suffering, injustice-without the church. The liberals who suggest a church without compelling dogmas, stifling rituals and unreal moral codes will find that such a church already exists. It's called the world, and its adherents are called...
...good week, with overtime, a miner can bring home $200, a tidy sum in the hill country. Besides, the mines are heavy tax producers for the states in which they are located. Thus it requires a great deal of courage to speak out in favor of safety precautions and equipment that can add to the operating costs of the mines...
...finds to annoy the British, who are backing the Nigerian government. A third reason may well be that a united and progressing Nigeria would be a threat to the French economic dominance of West Africa. Seemingly, the French cannot lose. If Biafra wins, they may get a good deal on the oil. Should events take a turn for the worse, France probably will help Biafra set up a government-in-exile here in Gabon. If, as seems possible, French arms shipments succeed in prolonging the war one or two years, then even if Biafra is defeated, an exhausted Nigeria will...