Word: foreign
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WHILL much of its independence was eventually compromised in return for economic aid from the Soviet Union, Cuba has retained many independent policies, modifying its economy in a centrally directed process of "rectification," not "restructuring." Cuba's foreign debt is substantially lower than that of its U.S.-supported counterparts...
...independence. The last country to be liberated from the Spanish, in 1898, Cuba quickly found itself under the control of the United States. Until 1902, U.S. marines were stationed as advisors to Cuba. Until 1934, under the Platt Amendment, the U.S. State Department held official control over Cuban foreign and trade policy...
Coming out of World War II the United States, led by Harry Truman, reached a consensus shared by both Democrats and Republicans. Rather than forcefully knocking out a Soviet Russia tired and spent by Hitler's Wehrmacht, the U.S. instigated a policy of containment in response to the expansionist foreign policy pursued by the Soviet Union. The mutually exclusive nature of these stances led to the Cold War, which has been fought in Korea, the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Nicaragua and Afghanistan...
Irving's inventive stamina and virtuosity scarcely disguise his indignation about the ways of the world, particularly about the manner in which U.S. foreign policy has been conducted in the past 25 years. The period includes John F. Kennedy's military intervention in Viet Nam and Ronald Reagan's resurrection of 19th century jingoism over Central America...
...company scored a major coup last week when American Airlines announced plans to buy 75 Fokker 100s, to be delivered in the next six years, and an option to purchase 75 more later on. The American deal, worth as much as $3 billion, is the largest foreign contract ever won by a Dutch company...