Word: payments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regard to the sacrifices the President has called for: Is the payment of blackmail and tribute one of them...
...went Bernard Goldfine, 70, onetime gift-giving crony of ex-Presidential Aide Sherman Adams. The Boston textile tycoon, who served three months for contempt of court last summer, was also fined $110,000 on a tax-evasion conviction, put on five years' probation with two requirements: payment of an estimated $5,000,000 in back taxes, and detailed explanation of his disposition of $600,000, said to have been handed to political pals...
...nation so soft that we will resort to the payment of blackmail to a psychopathic, power-hungry dictator to avoid our responsibilities? There is no doubt of our obligation to the members of the unsuccessful invasion force, since they were apparently ill advised by our intelligence groups; but far more satisfactory methods of obtaining their freedom are close at hand...
...ease the pressure on their beleaguered yuan, Peking authorities have obtained a five-year moratorium on payment of their balances to the Soviet Union and cut back purchases of industrial equipment from West Germany and Britain. They are also dumping abroad textiles badly needed in China itself at prices well below competitive exports from India, Japan and Hong Kong. But these measures cannot conceal the fact that Mao's communization has wiped out those exportable surpluses of soybeans, rice, pork and oils that used to earn the country foreign exchange...
...million in April to set a new high of $410.3 billion. The income rise, which took place chiefly through improved wages and salaries rather than through Government benefits, would have been even bigger ($2.3 billion) if the Administration had not artificially inflated the March rate by making early payment of $1.8 billion in G.I. insurance dividends...