Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certainly it would seem over simple to maintain, as Commerce Secretary Weeks did, that the Sputniks produced a wave of hysteria hoarding. A more sophisticated analysis is obviously necessary. Such a redefinition may well show that America, rich in private goods, is characterized by relative poverty in public goods. Public spending is now so heavily directed towards defense industries that funds for other government services are curtailed. But defense spending is neither an appropriate anti-recession measure nor, hopefully, a permanent cushion for an over-produced economy. To raise the weapons budget in times of depression will constitute an excuse...
...South Carolina to West Germany to be within easy range of Lebanon. It also sent two Sixth Fleet amphibious units eastward in the Mediterranean with 3,600 Marines, ready if needed to back up U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock's word that "We are determined to help this government maintain internal security...
...found admirers -including the Communist Deputies who supported the emergency-powers bill -the issue before France was a matter of black and white; there existed, as Pflimlin said, "a plot against the republic," and anyone who believed in democracy must be ready "to take all necessary measures to maintain republican liberties." Unhappily, like most other attempts to reduce French political issues to black and white, this proposition was founded on a fallacy. In this case, the fallacy was the assumption that the existing French political system constitutes a working democracy...
...across the crowded square, reading a message he had just wired to President Coty and to General de Gaulle:* "We inform you that we have set up a Committee of Public Safety under the presidency of General Massu, owing to the seriousness of the situation and the need to maintain order and avoid bloodshed. The committee awaits with vigilance the formation of a Government of Public Safety -the only means of keeping Algeria an integral part of French territory...
...Gaza Strip. As the riots raged on, the U.S. Sixth Fleet stood into the eastern Mediterranean, a U.S. cargo ship fetched 14 Americans unscathed from battered Tripoli, and U.S. Air Force transports roared into Beirut with tear gas and small-arms ammunition. "We are determined to help this government maintain internal security," said U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock...