Word: interes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week two subsidiaries of Brazilian Traction Light & Power Co. will sign a $40 million loan agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development as the first step in a fiveyear, $228 million program to double their service. The Inter-American Development Bank and ADELA (Atlantic Community Development Group for Latin America), a private, multinational investment group that has invested $12.7 million in Latin America, have just joined with Brazilian Millionaire...
Wilcox would like to expand the seminar program, and he explained that the dearth of seminars offered was "not a policy decision, but rather a question of how many qualified teachers are available." He pointed out that, as with all inter-departmental programs, the Freshman Seminar Program does not have the power of appointment...
...resolution caused something of a furor in both the U.S. and Latin America, but the fuss did not obscure its clear warning to Russia and China. Its object, said Alabama Democrat Armistead Selden, the resolution's sponsor and the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, was "to make it clear to Communists that they cannot count on the principle of nonintervention to shield their takeover of a hemisphere country." Added he: "It is a pretty good mandate about how the people of this country really feel...
...minute before 3 a.m. - the deadline - he interrupted a scorching, anti-Indian diatribe, plucked from the stack of papers before him a telegram from Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan: "In the interests of inter national peace ... I have issued the following order to the Pakistani armed forces: they will stop fighting as from 1205 hours West Pakistan time today...
...believe that there is anything particularly beautiful or especially moving about blatant human grief and I do not draw any comfort out of the inter-position of another's pain and fears beside my cash and safety...