Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nicholas Kisburg, legislative director of Teamsters Joint Council...
...Washington that Operation Intercept had been replaced by "Operation Cooperation." The U.S., said a terse communiqué, would "adjust" customs procedures to cut out "inconvenience, delay and irritation"-meaning that the border inspections would be eased. In two weeks, talks are to begin in Mexico City on a joint antidrug effort. U.S. officials are calling that a victory, but it has the ring of a bugout too. The latest goal, as State spokesmen explain it, is a gradual "Mexicanization" of the war on drugs...
Last week Kennedy did it again. During questioning by friendly Republican Congressmen on the Joint Economic Committee, he was asked whether the current 4% unemployment rate was "acceptable or unacceptable." Ignoring a prepared statement that a staffer hastily handed to him, Kennedy replied with more candor than tact: "Under present circumstances, it is acceptable." To compound matters, Kennedy also raised anew the idea that if present anti-inflationary policies do not work, the Administration would have to consider "moving into the field of controls of some kind...
...crackers to go with them. The Soviet sales luncheon has become increasingly familiar in Southeast Asia, where the Russians are pressing an economic offensive. This week they will wind up their most ambitious effort, a three-week trade fair in Kuala Lumpur. Elsewhere, the Russians have recently formed a joint shipping company with businessmen in Singapore, made trade overtures to the Philippines, welcomed a Thai trade delegation in Moscow and expanded Aeroflot plane service in many parts of Asia...
...drug blockade of the Mexican border under way since September 27, has caused official Mexican protests. In response, a joint American-Mexican conference since announced that the United States would "adjust" its inspections to alleviate unnecessary delays...