Word: paving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Private Line. Later that same year, Dulles' people began to pick up fascinating intelligence in the form of peace feelers from Nazi leaders assigned to northern Italy. As the tide turned against the Nazis, these overtures grew in number, so Dulles decided to pave a channel of communications for the enemy...
Taking an entirely different tack from the Rockefeller men, Michigan State University researchers have at tacked both parts of the food problem at once. Borrowing the methods and materials of highway builders, they have learned to lay down underground strips of asphalt that literally pave the way for richer crops of all varieties...
...interim agreement that will permit the French to remain on German soil while a new, non-NATO basis for their presence is negotiated. This week French Premier Georges Pompidou flies to London for talks with Harold Wilson on the possibility of British entry into the Common Market. To pave the way for those discussions, British Defense Minister Denis Healey apologized for intemperate charges (that leaked out of a private meeting) accusing Charles de Gaulle of being "a bad partner in NATO and a bad partner in the Common Market...
...Castro Call. Exiles in New York, Miami and Nassau only shrug at such gestures. Never at a loss for rumors, exiles were brimming with an entirely new crop last week, hinting at possible coup attempts inside Haiti and new guerrilla invasions. To help pave the way, "The Voice of Haitian International Union," an exile group, buys time on a New York short-wave radio station to beam a half-hour news and conversation program into Haiti six days a week, poking fun at Duvalier. Castro is also taking to the air waves. "Duvalier has signed his own death warrant," Havana...
...opposed government factions-the so-called "soft-liners," including Castello Branco, who want to operate within a constitutional framework, and the hard liners who demand more aggressive "revolutionary government." Finally, in a showdown last October, the hard liners forced Castello Branco to abolish Brazil's 13 political parties, pave the way for a government party called ARENA, and order indirect presidential elections this fall by Congress rather than by direct popular elections. Since ARENA controls 284 of Congress' 475 seats, its candidate is certain to be President. Recognizing this, Costa e Silva decided to make...