Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While he was being politically undermined by Moscow, Ulbricht plunged desperately ahead with attempts to salvage his trouble-racked seven-year plan. Accentuating East Germany's dependent status as an industrial satellite of Russia, he eliminated production of virtually all goods that are not needed for export to the Communist bloc. Ulbricht's riskiest move has been to demand more work for less pay. It was his previous boosting of work norms that triggered the 1953 uprising, and today East German workers are again threatening to strike. Says one: "We will go to prison, probably, but what...
...Atlantida as his life's masterwork. a Spanish Parsifal, throbbing with epic Wagnerian themes and massive Wagnerian thunder. He took his title and story from the Catalonian epic by Jacinto Verdaguer-a tale of the lost continent of Atlantis, destroyed for its sins, and of Spain preserved to export Christianity to the New World...
...yourself movement stirred irate protests from Moscow, where Pravda accused West Berlin authorities of "openly inciting subversive actions against peace." In fact, the exodus has been stepped up by East Germany's increasingly desperate food shortage. Blaming the situation on its lack of export credits rather than the abysmal failure of its collectivized agriculture, the regime last week urged the people to start growing food in their own backyards. Whether for food or freedom, it looked as if more and more East Germans would be out digging this summer...
...Acts empowered the President to export any alien deemed dangerous to the country and to punish journalists for printing anything detrimental to the national interest. A journalist, John Peter Zenger, was brought to trial under the Sedition Act, but a jury found him innocent. By 1801, both laws had vanished from the federal statute book...
...Ikeda's government slapped on credit curbs designed to discourage industrial expansion. Last week, however, the government reported that, despite all its efforts, Japan's gross national product in 1961 increased by 21.5%-6½ times the U.S. rate. Meanwhile, under the stimulus of a government-backed export drive, overseas sales had picked up enough to give Japan a favorable trade balance of $92 million for the first quarter of this year. Sighed Government Economic Planner Masao Sakizaka: "It seems the only people who realize that there's a serious recession going on are we economists...