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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that the U.S. has quietly begun trimming its economic aid to her brother-in-law's regime in hopes of forcing it to initiate reforms. After Diem's Special Forces raided the Buddhist pagodas last August, the U.S. suspended a $10 million-a-month commercial import program, sales of U.S. surplus commodities that ran to $2,000,000 a month, and part of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's $2,000,000 monthly payments to the Special Forces and blocked funds used to finance Ngo Dinh Nhu's secret police...
...first, Castiella finally accepted a five-year extension. The price: "military assistance" to the Spanish armed forces and a pledge from Rusk of $100 million in development aid from the Export-Import Bank...
...appointments and dates? Well, let Gimpex take care of this with a Russian alarm wristwatch." And if timing is no problem, how about Chinese or Czechoslovakian sewing machines, glassware, pots and pans, brushes, cut-rate food items? In British Guiana's capital of Georgetown, Gimpex, short for Guiana Import-Export Corp., offers them all. The company is the colony's biggest importer of Communist goods, and Marxist Premier Cheddi lagan's lifeline to the Red world...
...holdings have declined 75 per cent since 1958. The Indonesian rupiah, which was devalued by 75 per cent in 1960, dropped in May of this year to four per cent of its pre-1960 figure. Rice, Indonesia's staple food, is expensive and scarce, Sukarno will probably have to import over 75 million dollars worth of rice this year, and he will have to sell enough exports...
Houses & Medicine. By scraping up money from such sources as the Export-Import Bank and the Peace Corps, Moscoso hopes to stretch out his budget for a while. But Alliance economists are busy figuring out scaled-down programs, even though there is a possibility that the Senate might reverse the House action. A $150 million cutback could mean abandoning plans next year to build 10,000 classrooms and low-cost housing for some 175,000 people; it would cancel low-interest loans to 10,000 farmers for plows, seed and fertilizer to escape subsistence-level farming, wipe out a plan...