Word: defending
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Using foreign aid to defend the free world against Communism attained the status of a philosophy in 1951, when the Mutual Security Act was passed by Congress and an attempt was made to gather all the proliferating economic and military assistance plans into one coordinated program. So many administrators came and went that nothing really got coordinated; 2,000 steel plows lay rusting in Ethiopia, dams were built in a remote corner of Afghanistan, Asian potentates had fleets of cars bought with aid funds. This phase began to end in 1957 when President Eisenhower shifted the major emphasis of foreign...
Everybody ought to have a gun, Fidel Castro maintained - until lately. At a 1960 rally in Havana, he explained that "This is how democracy works: it gives rifles to farmers, to students, to women, to Negroes, to the poor, and to every citizen who is ready to defend a just cause." Weapons ranging from Czech submachine guns to Belgian FN automatic rifles were handed out to 50,000 soldiers, 400,000 militiamen, 100,000 members of the factory-guarding popular defense force, and to many men, women and children in Cuba's 1,000,000-strong "neighborhood vigilance committees...
...struggle to defend the battered pound, Britain's Labor government has not only borrowed heavily abroad but has severely cut back its whole welfare program in favor of the toughest clampdown on Britain's overheated economy since the early '50s. Purpose: to create a measure of deflation and thereby dampen Britain's appetite for buying more abroad than it sells, a habit that has upset the country's trade balance and contributed heavily to the pound's troubles. Last week, with stunning swiftness, the government began getting its way. The first clouds of recession...
After 1966, said the institute, Britain will face a choice between 1) economic "quasi-stagnation" and rising unemployment to hold down imports, or 2) a level of imports that will make it hard to repay on time the $2.5 billion it borrowed to defend sterling. There is just one way for Britain to escape those unpleasant alternatives: get rid of its lingering inefficiencies...
...sudden embargo on exported subversion. In fact, the Boumedienne regime was drawing fire from leftists all over the revolutionary lot. In Paris the Communist newspaper L'Humanite published a manifesto calling on Algerians to organize themselves into "clandestine cells" to "fight against the stranglers of the republic." To defend himself against leftist attacks, Boumedienne has gone out of his way to proclaim that Algeria is still "socialist" and "revolutionary." But with his nation all but bankrupted by Ben Bella's ambitious plots, he is vitally concerned with reform at home. Ignoring the howls of extremists, he has already...