Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure now goes back to the Senate for its consideration, possibly Tuesday or Wednesday, A speedy decision is needed since officials of the Export-Import Bank have agreed to delay action on wheat deals until the Senate acts on Mundt's bill. The bank has agreed to underwrite sales of $25 million of U.S. wheat to communist Hungary...
During the final hours of debate, South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt introduced an amendment that would have prohibited the use of the Export-Import Bank to guarantee Russian payments to commercial traders in the U.S.-Soviet wheat deal. That threatened to throw the aid bill or the wheat deal-or both-back into a welter of confusion and conflict. Only under the urging of both Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen did Mundt finally agree to withdraw his amendment and to submit it later as separate legislation...
...daily. Therein lay the rub. Because it was obligated to buy the companies' oil, Y.P.F. had to cap many of its own wells, complained angrily that the total cost of the oil to the government oil company was now more than it once paid to import oil. This the private companies denied, and in the conflicting figures no one could be sure who was right, but the nationalists talked loudest...
...want any neutralists." Before the week was out, the regime lifted martial law and censorship. First to recognize South Viet Nam's new government were Malaysia and Thailand, followed by Great Britain and the U.S., which also prepared to restore a $12 million-a-month import aid program suspended under Diem...
Militant, organized Negroes argue that the only solution is to import white students to Negro schools on the bitter theory that this will guarantee adequate teaching. Superintendent Gross has ruled that out. He backs every integration step "short of the compulsory interchange of Negro and white students between distant communities." Gross relies heavily on upgrading mostly Negro schools, but to mitigate the hurts of de facto segregation he intends to amplify the city's "open enrollment" plan by permitting children of all races "free choice" to enter underused schools throughout the city...