Word: deters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...struggle for peaceful co-existence the free world has been continually on the defensive. Accordingly, its foreign policy has consisted primarily of building or re-building the strength of the pro-western nations, particularly the European democracies. These countries, united within the defense alliance of NATO, were meant to deter aggression through a show of combined strength...
National Defense. Both agree that the U.S. must continue to maintain a military establishment powerful enough to deter aggression. At issue: the Democrats charge the Administration has settled for "second best" defense; the Republicans believe the U.S. "has the strongest striking force in the world." The more specific Republican plank calls for a jet-powered, long-range Air Force, the most effective guided missiles, a modern Navy with a powerful air arm, an Army with unequaled mobility and firepower, and bases "strategically dispersed at home and around the world...
...difficulty us ing up their allotments of Salk vaccine, and last week 17 states (twelve of them in the South) turned back 2,430,000 shots, largely because schools had closed before adequate supplies became available. In North Carolina the state medical society took the more vigorous step - it deter mined not to turn the vaccine back, but to put it to work. When the blitz began, only about a third of an estimated 1,935,000 Tarheels eligible for the vaccine (all under 20, and pregnant women) had re ceived it. Guilford County, which had a better-than-average...
...recommending settlement of the Indo-Pakistani dispute over Kashmir. Said he: "A military alliance is backing one country, namely Pakistan, in its dispute with India." He pointed to the sudden rash of skirmishes on the Pakistan border. These show, he said, that Pakistan wants U.S. arms not to deter an aggressor but to settle its disputes with India "from a position of strength." Arming of Pakistan poses "a terrible problem" for India: it will force India to spend money on defense that is badly needed for economic development...
...increase in mental discipline, however, should not be the Faculty's only consideration. In medical school, students will face a severe and restrictive discipline. What premeds really need is a chance to dabble in the arts before facing the rigors of medical school. Admittedly, the Biochemistry plan would not deter the study of liberal arts appreciably; Biology concentrators only have to take one half-course more than Biochemists in order to satisfy medical school requirements...