Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specially trained CIA teams (now reportedly halted); the formation, funding and training by the CIA of an irregular army of up to 15,000 Meo tribesmen; large-scale operations throughout Laos by Air America, the CIA's unofficial flag line in Asia; and the recruitment, training and payment of at least 4,800 Thai volunteers to fight in Laos...
...small import-export business. Relatives urged him to invest in real estate, but he had learned the hard way to prefer investments that were not tied down or vulnerable to government takeover. "I wanted movable assets," he explains. Without knowing port from starboard, he scraped together the down payment for a Liberty-type freighter...
Barring an unforeseen snag, the British are almost certain to leave Luxembourg by the middle of this week with an attractive set of terms, including probably an initial British payment of just under 10% of the EEC budget. With Norway, Denmark and Ireland poised to join Britain in entering the Market, the Six may thus become the Ten by 1973 (the target date for formal British entry), giving Europe its greatest unity since the beginning of the breakup of Charlemagne's empire...
...just which of its parts and programs would be attractive acquisitions for their own corporations. At least one competitor may have gone even further. According to Senator William Proxmire, McDonnell-Douglas has hinted that it might indemnify three airlines that have ordered Lockheed's TriStar against any down-payment losses-provided they switch their orders to the McDonnell-Douglas...
...monetary system to attacking trade problems. Connally argues that foreign discrimination against U.S. exports prevents the U.S. from selling enough to the rest of the world to cover its military, tourist and investment expenditures overseas. It is this discrimination, he says, that perpetuates the nation's balance of payment deficits...