Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pronouncements-and the British sentiment that they reflect-intruded into last week's London meeting of leaders from the 28 Commonwealth nations, of which 22 have predominantly nonwhite populations. Offended by articles in the British press that portrayed the behavior of Asian immigrants as uncouth and unclean, Pakistani Foreign Minister Arshad Husain rapped Britain for practicing discrimination. Rising in Britain's defense, Prime Minister Harold Wilson pointed to the "fiercely penal" anti-discrimination laws that his Labor Government has sponsored. Beyond that, Wilson could do little except plead: "Do not hold me responsible for the phenomenon known...
...holding to one's own convictions, no matter how wrongheaded they may seem to others. He is the delight of right-wing Tories in money matters, demanding the abolition of government fiscal controls and proposing to cut income taxes in half and reduce government spending drastically. On foreign policy issues, he is a devout "Little Englander," who would end all of Britain's commitments beyond Europe, dissolve the Commonwealth and cut loose Rhodesia to go the route of former colonies in America. On a few domestic questions he is mildly progressive: Powell was among those Tories who voted...
Someone managed to radio a report of the attack to Georgetown. In a ragtag collection of airplanes, about 226 of Guyana's 1,800-man defense force flew in and scattered the rebels. Guyana's ambassador to Venezuela, Novelist E. A. Braithwaite, handed the foreign ministry in Caracas a note written in words more angry than those of the gentle author of To Sir, With Love; the Venezuelans handed it back. As for the heirs of that old South Dakota pioneer, Ben Hart, they fled over the border to Venezuela. And the fine houses that the Harts built...
...President credits his successes and 25 years of stability to two basic policies. One is an open-door policy in regard to foreign investment. The other is his Integration and Unification Program, an effort to erase divisions between Americo-Liberians and the tribal people and to stop intertribal warfare. To still tribal rivalries, Tubman traveled far and wide through the bush to attend palavers with local chiefs, even became grand master of the secret Poro societies, to which all of Liberia's 28 tribes belong. He has extended the vote to the tribal people and banned the term Americo...
...Great Tree. His open-door economic policies have brought relative progress to Liberia. Foreign investment now amounts to nearly $750 million-mostly in iron ore, rubber and commercial banking. Tubman checks economic performance continually: an old law still on the books has it that all government expenditures of more than $200 must be approved by the President, and the President spends hours every week poring over the ledgers. As a result, important government work tends to be held...