Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...odds, the threat is most serious in Asia, where Communism-predominantly Chinese Communism-exploits the vast turmoil of social disorder and political-economic discontent. Peking has chosen as its chief weapon "the war of national liberation," an export version of the Chinese Communist revolution, which is based on the theory that through interminable guerrilla war a weaker force can wear out and finally overcome a stronger one. The Chinese work through nominally independent "nationalist" organizations such as the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front. It makes no difference to Peking if such fronts contain many nonCommunists; as in North Viet...
...chanted "Fi-del! Fi-del!" beads of sweat matted Castro's unkempt beard in the broiling afternoon sun. For a Castro speech, it was mercifully short: three hours. Inevitably, he mocked the OAS, upbraided the U.S. Neither the U.S. nor the OAS, Castro boomed, could stop his chief export: Communism. "We call ourselves fighters for Communism! We want revolution; we want the liberation of the peoples of Latin America...
Last week the 21-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development dismissed Britain's export performance as "consistently unsatisfactory." Seeking to calm the foreign fear, Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan unfurled what amounts to Labor's third budget in nine months: a series of tough deflationary measures that stop just short of import quotas, which would be Britain's last line of defense against devaluation...
...stem imports, the government ordered a reduction in the amount of money available for purchases abroad, also stipulated that British importers stop paying in advance for foreign goods. Estimated saving: $126 million a year. To spur British sales abroad, Callaghan said that interest charges for short-term export credits will be trimmed from 7% to 6%; the government will also delay planned construction projects for schools, hospitals, housing and roads-thus bravely inviting a rise in unemployment in hopes of overcoming labor shortages in key export industries, such as shipbuilding. To dampen domestic demand and bring down export prices...
...year advertising campaign that has helped make Munich's Triumph International the largest manufacturer of foundation garments in Europe. Half of all the bras and girdles sold in West Germany are made by Triumph in its 65 domestic plants, and the company satisfies a growing export market from 15 factories abroad. It plans to invade the U.S. next January. Volume has nearly quadrupled since 1958, and last week, in its semiannual report, the company said that sales are running at a yearly rate of $130 million, up 25% from...