Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peking, Nenni took tea with Mao Tse-tung, addressed the Communists' Consultative Political Conference ("It is a scandal that this new, vibrant China has not been admitted to the United Nations"), talked mutual trade with Premier Chou Enlai, discussed Roman Catholicism with the self-styled "vicar general of Peking." Concluded Nenni: "Catholic missionaries in China can leave and return as they like," provided, of course, that they do not carry out "counterrevolutionary propaganda...
Unfortunately, this offer by the Kremlin was not the first Soviet move involving technical aid to have embarrassed the United States. The Administration grants technical assistance to underdeveloped countries as a "mutual defense support" against Communist infiltration. When such infiltration is not imminent, however, these countries receive aid only when they press for it. Russia does not even wait for them to ask. As is shown by the Soviets' dam offer, they fill in any holes in Western aid programs with a vengeance...
...knowledge of where American policy actually stands. President Truman's point IV program began in 1949 as a non-partisan, almost a non-military attempt to "help underdeveloped countries he themselves." But even before Truman left office, Point IV had been lumped with U.S. military aid programs into the Mutual Security Administration. Under Eisenhower this unwanted orphan of the Democrats became the Foreign Operation Administration. With each change in name the American technical assistance program has become more political and less humanitarian in purpose, until now, under-developed countries distrust it as savoring of imperialism an enforced American ideas, Egypt...
...months since the U.S. Secretary of State made this statement, allied diplomats have worked to turn a vague desire into a concrete fact. Their first reward came in February, when Turkey and Iraq signed a mutual-defense pact in Baghdad. Britain, representing Cyprus, joined in April, Pakistan in July. Last week Iran signed up, and the "Northern Tier" became one of the important realities of international politics...
...plan, offered by most New York companies, automatically insures every New York driver who now carries liability coverage, along with members of his household or guests in his car, against bodily (but not property) injury that is the fault of any uninsured driver. Most of the state's mutual companies (onefourth of the total) will also pay damages regardless of who is to blame. The additional coverage (up to $10,000 per person but not more than $20,000 in all) is now free but will cost from $2.50 to $4 to drivers who choose to keep it when...