Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arms List. Yet, if the plight of the Americans was seen to be grave, could not Congress vote for the aid funds as a last gesture, believing that the money would provide a psychological lift but not actually be spent? Perhaps, but the weariness with Viet Nam, the suspicion of the Executive, runs deep in Congress. Moreover, while not optimistic about the practical impact of shoring up the Saigon forces, Pentagon experts contend that shipment of military supplies could be hastened to reach Saigon quickly. There is still some $175 million worth of equipment in the pipeline...
...October he was forced to close the bank, and the Swiss government granted him a temporary moratorium on its payments. Now rumors are growing that because Rosenbaum is unable to raise money to pay his debts, which are estimated to be about $136 million, the Swiss may soon lift the moratorium. In that case, the bank would collapse, Rosenbaum would be bankrupt and the thousands of investors and depositors in I.C.B.-mostly Jewish-would probably lose virtually everything that they had put into the bank...
...from the South Vietnamese. The normally bland army newspaper Tien Tuyen (Frontline) last week demanded that the Thieu regime "take strong, hard measures against foreign correspondents" for being "in major part" responsible for Communist gains. As Danang fell, a group of American journalists gave two South Vietnamese marines a lift to the airport. When the marines asked the journalists their nationality, their driver thoughtfully replied that they were English. "That's good," said one of the soldiers. "We're ready to kill any Americans...
Ford also asked Congress to lift restrictions in the Trade Act of 1974 that refuse most favored nation status to the Soviet Union unless its emigration policies are eased...
Ford defended the Central Intelligence Agency and asked Congress to lift the arms embargo against Turkey and the trade restrictions from the Soviet Union...