Word: distruster
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...even prepared to let Frenchmen buy the bond with previously undeclared - and hence illegal - foreign currency holdings. "That law," explained Pinay blandly, "has never been enforced anyway." De Gaulle himself was hard at work on constitutional reform. Some details gradually leaked out. Upon a nation with an ingrained distrust of strong government, the general hoped to impose a President who could not only appoint Premiers without parliamentary approval but would also be empowered to dissolve Parliament at will. To balance still more the power of the popularly elected National Assembly, De Gaulle would like to establish a strong Senate whose...
They had reached the coast of the Black Sea. The long battle odyssey of some 1,500 miles was over, for here were Greek cities, and here should have been an end of fighting. But the end of fighting brought the beginning of distrust. The soldiers turned against each other. Xenophon had to use all his oratorical skill to keep them from stoning him to death because the troops suspected he planned to use them to found a city instead of taking them home. The glorious march up country ends on this pitiful note of bickering and betrayal. Scarcely half...
...post-Sputnik conference in Paris last December, it became part of Western European belief that their deliberations constituted a famous victory over John Foster Dulles by the forces of reason. At Paris, so the legend went, the farsighted statesmen of Europe finally overrode Dulles' pathologic distrust of Communists, began to push him, kicking and protesting, toward the one thing that might relieve world tensions-a summit conference with the Russians...
...except for a small, close-knit oligarchy, Peru is poor; laborers in Lima get $1 a day. Poverty breeds envy of the rich U.S., and a distrust of capitalism. Noted Nixon after a look at Peru: "South America is not going to support a system of free enterprise if the system appears designed primarily to maintain the status quo and protect the wealth and good life for the few." The U.S. has also suffered prestige setbacks from Sputnik and Little Rock, and from its take-'em-for-granted attitude toward its hemisphere neighbors. Latin Americans widely credit...
...outfits with the necessary know-how who will be willing to accept a minority interest. Tentatively. Rykens has set a ceiling of 40% for Western financial participation. MIDEC will concentrate initially on small industrial enterprises such as paper mills, breweries, fertilizer, bicycle, textile and chemical plants. However much Arabs distrust the West, Rykens thinks they still respect Western technological ability enough to make the plan work...