Word: exchangees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kickback: 20%. The trouble can be traced to the days in 1955 when Communist armies of the Viet Minh hovered on Laos' borders after the French debacle at Dienbienphu. With the French withdrawing financial support, the urgent necessity was to keep the 25,000-man Laotian army in the...
The primary purpose was to supply kip to pay and support the army. But in the two years since then, as the U.S. steadily broadened its aid program, the free rate has soared as high as 120 kip for $1 in the markets of Vientiane, Bangkok and Hong Kong. The...
Sporadic War. There is no question that Laos needs aid. Of the $43 million allocated for this year, about two-thirds is direct military aid for support of the army, which has been fighting to regain two northeastern provinces occupied by the Communist Pathet Lao forces after the Geneva conference...
In one day on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the indexes for base-metal stocks, golds and uraniums all plunged to their lowest levels since 1954; the industrial index hit a 2½-year low. Next day bargain hunters swept into the market and share prices staged the biggest rise in...
With this exchange, the Vatican radio station built by Marconi began broadcasting 26 years ago. This week the Vatican radio (call letters: HVJ, which have no particular significance) will go on the air with a far stronger voice: a powerful, new transmitting station (cost: about $3,200,000). Located on...