Word: indirections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...food. The Government might also expand its aid?$10 million this year ?to farmers who organize cooperative groups that develop foreign markets. One tempting target: China, which has just begun to buy U.S. meat and grain and could use more. Carter has signed a new law that permits indirect Government loans to finance food exports to China and establishes U.S. Agricultural Trade Offices overseas, strengthening efforts currently carried on by embassy officials...
...obstruction call in the Harvard penalty area set up an indirect kick fifteen feet from the goal. Only sloppy URI play prevented a score...
About 120 people attended the year's first meeting of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) in Adams House last night, and listened to speakers discuss Harvard's indirect links to South Africa, the protests of last spring, and general plans for the future...
...wants the CENTO charter rewritten so that Pakistan could call for alliance help if threatened by an "indirect" Soviet attack. Washington interprets this as an unwarranted commitment to defend Zia in the event of another Indo-Pakistani war, and will have none of it. In response, the Pakistanis talk about the advantages of withdrawing from CENTO and joining the nonaligned movement. Says Zia: "CENTO is becoming a hindrance to Pakistan's security." Besides, he adds, "in the current day, it's better to be nonaligned than aligned. Look at India and Afghanistan. Both under the Soviet Union, yet they...
...State, the virtual Prime Minister of the Vatican. According to an informed reconstruction of the 1958 conclave, just such a gentlemen's agreement was worked out. Key Cardinals approached Angelo Roncalli, the man who became Pope John XXIII, and implied that they would vote for him in return for indirect assurances that Domenico Tardini, an experienced administrator and a Curial traditionalist, would be appointed Secretary of State. Replied Roncalli: "Eminences, one could not fail to take into consideration a man of such abilities." Soon thereafter, Roncalli was Pope and Tardini the Secretary of State...