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...achieved a hefty trade balance, and socked away more than $500 million in foreign-exchange reserves that encouraged foreign investment and industrial expansion. The U.S.-built Friendship Highway, from Sara Buri to Korat, facilitated the movement of crops to market, and the government began an agricultural diversification program to lessen dependence on rice, Thailand's single cash crop...
...through mutual terror." Churchill called it. A corollary of this concept is that in a nuclear stalemate the threat of nuclear retaliation ceases to be an effective deterrent to small-scale aggression with conventional weapons. In other words, nuclear stalemate can deter big wars but not little wars. To lessen the U.S.'s reliance on what the late John Foster Dulles called "massive retaliatory power," the Kennedy Administration has built up the U.S.'s conventional military forces, increasing Army combat divisions from 11 to 16 and Air Force tactical wings from...
...point is what [Castro] said and what he did." But the author himself quietly makes a crucial character judgement of Castro which shapes the book's entire analysis of the Cuban revolution. Consider this passage: "... once power came into [Castro's] hands, he refused to permit anything that might lessen or restrict it. He would not tolerate the functioning of a government that was not the facade of his personal rule or of a party that might develop a life of its own." Although Draper admits that the "inner history" of Castro's regime is yet to be written...
Having survived last week's struggle with Army, the Crimson track team now faces three weeks of boredom until they meet with the Heptagonals on May 11. The fact that Dartmouth is visiting Cambridge for a meet today at 2 p.m. will not appreciably lessen the boredom...
Primarily because he felt that the academic calibre of the average Harvard student had risen high enough to lessen the need for an artificially imposed Honors-non-Honors distinction, Gill suggested that the choice of whether or not to write a thesis should be left to the students themselves. After discussing the idea with several members of the Committee on Educational Policy, he set about the intricate task of writing down the exact provisions that would most satisfactorily embody the idea, and of convincing the other members of the Faculty that the idea was a good one. Though the "Gill...