Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...by?the people. Everyone at the White House agreed that a motorcade through Dallas would be the way to win maximum exposure. A lone dissenter, Texas Governor John Connally, argued that it would take too much time away from other appearances; he withdrew his objection when Kennedy decided to extend his Texas tour from one day, as originally planned...
...Malawi crisis dismayed Western observers for, as one diplomat put it, Banda's "are the most realistic, sensible and encouragingly pro-Western policies in Africa today." Banda stood firm against recognizing Red China, even though Peking is reported ready to extend credits of up to $50 million in return for recognition. Another trigger of the revolt was Banda's negotiation of a trade pact with Portugal, whose policies in Angola and Mozambique are anathema to African nationalists...
...reason that the West has held off this long is the Berne Union, a gentleman's agreement among trade insurers of 20 industrial nations not to extend export credit on terms longer than five years. Over the years, countless exceptions were made, but never to Communist countries. Then, in June, the British government agreed to guarantee a twelve-year credit of $10 million to Czechoslovakia for a fertilizer plant-and that set the precedent. Since then, Britain has opened negotiations for a $112 million, 15-year credit so that Russia can buy a prefabricated chemical plant. Italy granted...
...general manager: "We are excluding ourselves from this big market in the future unless we offer the same terms as our Western competitors do." And Russian trade commissars, knowing a good ploy when they see it, are hopping from capital to capital with a not-so-subtle threat: either extend long-term credit or no deal...
...those two hopeful veterans, Columbia and Nefertiti, each absorbed three more scrubbings from American Eagle and Constellation, the new girls in town. Officials of the New York Yacht Club Selection Committee decided to waste no more time. Hopping into a launch after the third defeat, they motored out to extend their thanks and regrets to Columbia's Skipper Walter Podolak and Nefertiti 's Ted Hood. That cleared the decks for the long-awaited head-to-head duel between Eagle and Constellation...