Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later elected mayor of Winter Park, and, in 1962, a U.S. Representative. Now he becomes the first Republican since Reconstruction to be sent to the Senate from Florida. To defeat former Democratic Governor LeRoy Collins, Conservative Gurney ran on a record that includes votes against civil rights legislation, foreign aid, and that "expensive boondoggle," the war on poverty...
...embassy in Djakarta and gutted it. Across Indonesia, other rioters seized on the fact that Singapore's population is mostly Chinese and staged rampages through Chinese sections, burning cars and shops. The two marines were given a state funeral in Djakarta. Last week tempers had begun to cool. Foreign Minister Adam Malik, backed by President Suharto, made it completely clear that there would be no break in relations. In a further attempt to hold ASEAN on course, he offered his nation's help in mediating the Sabah dispute...
Died. Sir Harold Raggatt, 68, long-time director of Australia's Bureau of Mineral Resources (1942-51) and Department of National Development (1951-64); of a heart attack; in Canberra. Sir Harold planned the first complete geological survey of the continent, welcomed foreign capital for development of the desolate Out Back, eventually saw it all pay off as enough oil and gas were discovered to make Australia almost self-sufficient...
...take in more money than the nation has paid for its im ports. That trade surplus has long been the foundation of U.S. global economic power. Over the past two decades, it has amounted to $79 billion, greatly diminishing the chronic balance of pay ments deficits caused by foreign aid and investment, overseas tourist traffic and military spending...
...latest figures on foreign trade have dispelled some of the gathering gloom. The Commerce Department reported that on a seasonally adjusted basis, exports exceeded imports by $282 million in September, triple the meager August surplus. The September bulge lifted the trade surplus for the first nine months of 1968 to $834 million. If the pace continues, predicted Assistant Commerce Secretary William H. Chartener, the U.S. should achieve a $1.5 billion surplus this year...