Word: european
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic stability-and that will require foreign aid. The Vice President advocates more U.S. economic aid, while Nixon hopes to hold it down by giving aid to fewer countries and inducing affluent allies to carry more of the burden. He overlooks the fact that France, Britain and several other European countries already divert larger shares of their national incomes to foreign aid than the U.S.'s .6%. The U.S. certainly can give more. In addition, says French Editor-Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the U.S. should improve its world position by far greater use of its potentially strongest weapon...
...Russians have a special phrase to describe their relationship with the Eastern European Communist countries within their sphere of influence. It is sotsialisticheskoe sodruzhestvo, which, translated into English, has a reassuring and almost beneficent ring: Socialist Commonwealth. Since the invasion of Czechoslovakia, however, the term has acquired a new and ominous meaning. It has come to reflect a departure in Soviet policy that some people suggest should be called the Brezhnev Doctrine, after Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, whose brutal and brusque attitude toward the Czechoslovak leaders has made him a symbol of the Soviet Union's belligerent mood...
...semiautobiographical first novel, The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski told of a six-year-old Eastern European city boy who is set adrift in the countryside during World War II and physically and emotionally brutalized by peasants. The painfully symbolic title refers to one rustic's practice of daubing a captured bird with bright colors, releasing it, and then watching an incensed flock peck it to death...
...beginning, it was apparently a straight business proposition. McGuire, who began flying for the Army Air Forces during World War II and had shipped supplies to isolated French units during the Indochina War, was working for a small European airline. He stopped over at Lisbon in May, and saw some Lockheed Constellations parked in a guarded portion of the airport there. "I knew what they were," he laughs, "In our business word gets around." Word had also reached him of the $1500 per trip salary for pilots ($1000 for flight engineers) and after a few inquiries, he joined the Biafran...
...ITALY is almost overrun with cars, but that has not stopped Fiat from selling more autos in Europe than anyone else ($1,300,000 last year). This year it stands to increase its share of the European market from 20% to 25% if Citroën comes into the fold. At home, sales have fallen off under competition from imports and from government-owned Alfa-Romeo. But Agnelli, Fiat's ardent pan-European, is more than making up for the decline with increased exports. Taking a tip from Detroit, he is bringing out several new models, including the fast...