Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Short. The pirates in this case were the dozen or so illegal radio stations that for the past three years have been beaming pop music into the British Isles from makeshift studios on rusty ferries, minesweepers, freighters and abandoned World War II antiaircraft towers just outside the three-mile limit. True to his word, Short last month helped push a piece of legislation through Parliament which, by making it a criminal offense to supply advertising, food or ships to the outlaw stations, successfully torpedoed the pirate fleet. A bloody catastrophe, wailed many of the 20 million listeners who each week...
...lofting astronaut has threaded a celestial needle of time and place and reached orbit is to be faced with the incomprehensible. But to know that he is traveling at 17,500 m.p.h. is a measure that means something to an earthling who must watch the "60 m.p.h." speed-limit signs...
...must find some way of expressing concrete support for the Arab moderates, lest pressure from the left force them to look to Russia for future support and assistance. The most practical support, suggested the Shah, would be arms. Not only was the Shah concerned about Senators who want to limit or end U.S. arms sales abroad; there was also the problem that deliveries already promised are simply not coming through. For at least four years, Washington repeatedly turned down Hussein's requests for some jet fighters. Not until Russia offered the King null at a bargain...
...meetings with Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Senate For eign Relations Committee members, the Shah argued that Senators who try to limit or eliminate U.S. arms sales abroad "don't know what they are talking about." How many times, he asked, can the U.S. intervene all over the world to support friendly governments? "You can't," he answered. "And why should you?" Friendly governments, he said, should be helped to become strong enough to defend themselves. Any unilateral U.S. ban on arms sales, the Shah insisted, would only weaken U.S. influence among its friends and create...
...assure that fuels are not diverted to weaponry. They want EURATOM, not the International Atomic Energy Agency,* to be their watchdog. They are worried that Communist nations in l.A.E.A. might take the opportunity to steal advanced industrial secrets. West Germany also vehemently opposes the absence of a time limit in the treaty. The Germans argue that it should be tried for five or ten years to see whether all those who sign will abide by its provisions...