Word: important
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week abrogated its treaty with Moscow (see INTERNATIONAL)-Russia was openly aiding and abetting a rival Chinese government, i.e., the Chinese Communists in Peking. But the U.S. is still committed to a kind of tense diplomatic equilibrium with Russia. Moreover, the Yalta and Potsdam agreements were so sweeping in import that repudiation might immediately put the U.S. face to face with the need for some kind of action to right the wrongs (e.g., to restore South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands to Japan...
...been put on the market before, but no prospective buyer has ever made an offer which the Government considered acceptable.) Meanwhile, both Congress and the Administration were speculatively eying several bigger Government corporations which could probably sell part of their holdings to private interests. Likely candidates: the Export-Import Bank, which has nearly $2.5 billion in outstanding loans, and the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannymae"), which holds about $2 billion in mortgages...
...Jointly financed by the U.S. Export-Import Bank ($14 million) and the Haitian government...
This week, as his second elected term began, Don Federico found his country little changed. Smugglers were running much of the nation's cattle across the border into Brazil to escape unrealistic price controls on beef. Bureaucrats were selling illegal import and export licenses. And the important quebracho, tobacco and cotton trade with Argentina was logjammed against Juan Perón's nationalistic economy. Now exiles have become Paraguay's principal export; of the 1,500,000 population, more than 100,000 (some estimates run up to 500,000) are refugees abroad. Most are members...
...diplomatic missions and Christian residents. Most Israeli Jews, whether orthodox in religion or not, prefer kosher meat to the traditionally forbidden flesh of pigs. As the food situation grew worse, however, the supplies of kosher meat ran low, and the government did not have the foreign exchange to import all it needed. Three months ago, in a desperate effort to maintain Israelis' fortnightly meat ration, the government allocated some locally grown pork to a few nonkosher butcher shops in Haifa...