Word: planned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle outlined, too, an ambitious five-year plan to raise Algeria's Moslems to something like economic equality with Frenchmen. But this would require peace. "Therefore, turning to those who are prolonging a fratricidal conflict, I say: Stop this absurd fighting, and you will see at once a new blossoming of hope all over the land of Algeria. You will see the prisons emptying; you will see the opening up of a future great enough to embrace everybody...
...Archbishop's Plan. It was a bitter beginning for Britain's hapless "adventure in partnership," the plan to freeze the status of Cyprus for seven years, during which the Turkish and Greek governments would be drawn into running the island's day-to-day affairs in a kind of tridominium. The Greeks were dead set against any plan to get Turkey into the act. As the deadline for the plan's start approached...
...Death to the plan." From Athens, Makarios dispatched an inflammatory statement: "I call upon the Greek Cypriot people to oppose vigorously the enforcement of the new British plan and to fight it as one man." The Greek EOKA terrorists who shot down Mrs. Cutliffe had apparently got the message...
...good of U.S. foreign aid programs. The U.S. is a member of the International Sugar Council, which has tried to stabilize sugar prices since 1954 by setting up export quotas for 25 nations. It has reluctantly led the way in trying to set up an international stabilization plan for coffee to save the world market from the results of coffee-planting binges. Last week 15 Latin American countries signed an agreement restricting coffee exports, but, by failing to curb overproduction, their real problem, left open the question of how long the agreement would work. Now the U.S. is also taking...
...stabilization plan for sugar has worked reasonably well. But restrictions on metals present greater problems, largely because of wide variances in production costs. Canada is reluctant to enter a lead and zinc cartel because her mining economy is booming, would prefer a free market in which high-cost producers, such as in the U.S., would be eliminated. Says W. S. Kirkpatrick, executive vice president of Canada's Consolidated Mining & Smelting: "The only real cure is to reduce output by closing down the high-cost producing mines. The natural economic law of supply and demand should be allowed to work...