Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Partly to remedy this numerical weakness, there is talk of a merger with the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. Its program includes "both study and political action," and SANE hopes "through petitions, communication with Senators and Representatives, and participation in Congressional hearings to direct and make articulate an informal public opinion...
...representative element is again revealed. Clearly, however, neither white dominance nor Nyasaland's withdrawal from the Federation is the answer. Economically, Nyasaland could not survive alone, for it gets over half its budget from the Rhodesias and its labor surplus relies on the Rhodesian copper industry. Nor would merger with her black and bankrupt neighbor, Tanganyika, help...
Only a year before, when Syrians welcomed Nasser as the new Saladin and his merger as "a turning point in world events," it seemed to his followers as if the tide of Arab nationalism might wash the whole Arab East into one Nasser ruled state. But the West threw up its dikes in Lebanon and Jordan, and the Communism that Nasser had invited into the Middle East was now helping Iraq's Premier Kassem to roll back the Arab nationalist flood from Baghdad...
...Syria itself there was now no visible opposition to Nasser's rule (the Communists and all other parties are banned), economic strains were being felt. Syrian foreign exchange holdings had shrunk in half in the merger's first year. Nasser's determination to force Syria's free-enterprise economy into Egypt's state socialist mold had sent private capital into flight, and threatened to make Syria's hard pound almost as soft as Egypt's. It had been a disastrous year for Syria's wheat and barley crops. But Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...continent, U.S. defenders would hope to engage the enemy with fighters and missiles far to the north of the U.S., over the Canadian Arctic. Last week, in a grave speech to the House of Commons in Ottawa, Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker cleared the way for an almost total merger of Canada's air defenses with those...