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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sacred Mission. During Dulles' three days on Formosa, he and Chiang held four conferences. From these meetings, plus Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor's separate talks with Nationalist military leaders came an understanding that when and if the Red Chinese agree to a "dependable" ceasefire, or at least refrain from acts of aggression for months in a row, Chiang will start gradually reducing his forces on the offshore islands...
...Brainy, West Virginia-born Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (pronounced straws) never went to college, started out as a traveling shoe salesman. As secretary to Food Administrator Herbert Hoover during World War I, Strauss noted with satisfaction last week that as Commerce Secretary he will be serving in a post once held by his onetime boss and longtime friend...
When the common market idea first came up, the British saw a surer future in their own Commonwealth and held aloof from any such untried continental combine. But to safeguard their European trade stake, they cooked up a plan for a wider, 17-nation Western European "free trade area" which would include the inner six and would also start in business on Jan. 1. Last week, at a showdown meeting of representatives of the 17 free trade area nations in Paris, the French threw up such a solid wall of resistance that the British feared for their chances of keeping...
...British to throw over their whole imperial preferences system of trade. Behind this French position was heavy pressure from French industrialists and farmers to stick with the six-nation community now that the West Germans and other members have conceded them practically all the special protections and privileges they held...
From his exile in the Canary Islands, ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla had flown home to Bogota, gambling that the fledgling government would never dare throw a former army boss in jail. He misjudged his opponents. While Rojas held court to a handful of admirers in the town house of a friend, Colombia's Senate calmly went ahead drafting indictments for corruption. One well-documented case revolved around Rojas' intervention to clear one of his cronies who was caught smuggling cattle into the country. The others were straight from bank and government records: that Rojas and his friends...