Word: millions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lenore and Erik Blegvad (Harcourt, Brace & World; $3.50), is a counting book that includes notions like "three million is for fish" and "ten million is for stars...
...turning over to the FBI a list of organizations that had been delinquent in filing their accounts. The offenders include the Cincinnati-based National Coordinating Committee for Humphrey and no fewer than 20 Republican committees organized to elect the Nixon-Agnew ticket. The G.O.P. contributions came to $14.6 million of the candidates' total $20 million-plus campaign expenditure. "It was something," says Jennings apologetically, "that I just couldn...
...officials felt that in the missile age, manned bombers were unnecessary. With Clark Clifford's arrival in the Pentagon, attitudes changed. The new Secretary of Defense was "inclined" to agree that there is a need for the new bomber, and with that, AMSA gained new impetus. Already, $120 million has been spent for advanced research and development. However, under the terms of last week's agreement, the Air Force cannot go ahead with full development and procurement. First, there will be a design competition that will last at least two years and cost several hundred million dollars...
...N.L.F. is the "principal force" in South Viet Nam because it represents four-fifths of the land area of South Viet Nam, and President Thieu's government "represents no one." (According to allied figures, the Viet Cong control only 15.3% of South Viet Nam's 17.4 million people.) The N.L.F. knows very well that it will not be accepted as spokesman for South Viet Nam. But it is trying to achieve enough legitimacy to work its way into a coalition government in Saigon, or drive a wedge between Washington and Saigon...
...truth is that Portugal's position could not have been otherwise." To the cheers of the hawkish National Assembly, Caetano pledged to continue the seven-year anti-insurgency wars in Angola, Portuguese Guinea and Mozambique, which last year soaked up some 40% of the country's $817 million budget...