Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about it? The most the ministers could agree on was to intensify surveillance of arms shipments to Cuba "to prevent the secret accumulation in the island of arms that can be used for offensive purposes against the hemisphere." There were vague phrases about combating subversion. And there was outright rejection of direct action: "A military intervention of Communist powers in Cuba cannot be justified as a situation analogous to the defensive measures adopted in other parts of the free world in order to face Soviet imperialism." One U.S. aide summed it all up: "They unanimously agreed upon a piece...
...authorizing the U.S. purchase of up to $100 million in U.N. bonds. The House version differs slightly from that passed by the Senate five months ago: it would forbid the U.S. to buy more than the total amount subscribed by other member nations. The Senate bill authorized outright purchase of $25 million-with the rest, up to the $100 million ceiling, to be bought only if the U.S. purchases were matched by other nations. The difference will be ironed out in a House-Senate conference...
...workers and better than those that come in off the street for a job." So far as is known, no prisoner has ever committed a crime while at work. Seven percent have been classified as "escapees" - a term that covers everything from leaving work to visit a friend to outright flight - and all have been returned to prison. Of convicts who have worked in the program and served their terms, only a handful have got into trouble after their release. Eventually, Randall hopes to have 1,000 prisoners outside on the job. Says he: "Under the old concept, prison...
...will prepare the formal decrees has a Curia prelate at its head-but two-thirds of the 24 members of the commission will be chosen by the bishops. On the presidential council of ten cardinals, who will take turns as chairmen of the sessions, the Pope named only one outright resister to change-Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini of Palermo. He filled the council with such middle-of-the-road prelates as New York's Francis Spellman and Achille Lienart of Lille, such prominent liberals as Bernard Alfrink of Utrecht and Joseph Frings of Cologne...
Salami Slicing. Many statesmen also are less worried at the prospect of outright conflict than by the systematic program to freeze the Allies out of the city by peaceful means. West German officials, in particular, argue that the U.S. too readily accedes to Moscow's systematic slicing away at its rights-"salami tactics," as diplomats call it. In fact, when Washington determinedly resists Russian pressure to revise or eliminate its rights, as it did last February in riding out Soviet harassment in the Berlin air corridors, Moscow usually backs down...