Word: easternism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question should be asked Khrushchev: How does he propose to keep Eastern Europe under Soviet domination simultaneously with total disarmament? It is quite obvious that these two policies are inconsistent...
...Taft-Hartley law's injunctive machinery against strikes threatening the national interest. To him, the necessity of using Taft-Hartley could only result from the failure of collective-bargaining procedures, in which he deeply believes. Yet last week he had to invoke Taft-Hartley twice, once in the Eastern dock strike, again-and with more disappointment-in the marathon steel strike...
...Matter of Muscle. But even in its new guise, the pact retained many of its old weaknesses. Though it has to its credit the improvement of transport and communications lines between its Middle Eastern members, CENTO still has no unified military command; the real muscle guarding the Northern Tier is supplied by the bilateral U.S. treaties. And CENTO still has a soft spot in Iran, where Russian pressure alternates between threats and blandishments in an effort to force Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi into the neutralist path...
...last week's session urged the U.S. to abandon the fiction that it is not a full member of the pact, and Iran's Eghbal outspokenly demanded more U.S. and British aid. But the U.S. had already pumped $470 million into CENTO's three Middle Eastern members in fiscal 1959. "Clearly, the U.S. cannot underwrite all CENTO economic projects," said Secretary of State Christian Herter. Imperfect as CENTO may be, however, the U.S. could not abandon it without shaking the free world's strategic position in the Middle East, and Herter also made it plain that...
Last year's star at left wing, Langi Kavaliku from Tonga, has returned, and with Charlie Rowe gives the Crimson one of the fastest pair of wings in the Eastern Rugby League. At the center positions, the starting slots are still undecided, but coach Dick O'Neil has much to work with...