Word: rb
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...Quemado Palace, Bolivia's presidential seat, has one entrance marked "RB" for Republica de Bolivia. Nowadays wits in La Paz insist that the initials actually stand for Rene Barrientos, the present occupant. The onetime air force commander was elected three years ago, following the coup that toppled Victor Paz Estenssoro. At the time, Bolivians predicted that he was politically too naive to survive longer than six months. With only a year to go before Barrientos completes a full term, even critics now admit that the handsome, mercurial chief executive has put his stamp on the country as have...
Electric and Pratt & Whitney; the Rolls RB-211 turbofan was the engineers' choice because of efficiency and lower noise levels. But at $2,500,000 a plane, the British-made engines meant a $235 million drain on the U.S. balance of payments. Lockheed solved this with an arrangement in which Ah" Holdings will sell 50 of the early L-1011s abroad. This will bring in $625 million for a favorable U.S. balance of $390 million, and further sales in a market estimated at 1,000 planes by 1980 could raise the U.S. excess to well over $5 billion dollars...
...First proposed in 1935 shortly after Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh flew to Moscow, the idea was plucked out of limbo by 1958-59 cultural-exchange agreements. Then the talks were broken off after the Soviets shot down the U-2 in 1960. When the Russians released two captured RB-47 flyers as a gesture to the new Kennedy Administration, negotiations resumed, and the deal had even been tentatively struck when the Berlin Wall blocked it. The Cuban missile crisis and other tensions kept the talks down until last summer, when President Johnson decided to try again. Last week, despite...
During a visit to the Soviet Union in 1962, Salinger got into a discussion with Khrushchev on the subject of Richard Nixon. Khrushchev reminded Salinger of the incident in July 1960 when a U.S. Air Force RB-47 was shot down over the Barents Sea. Nixon, said Khrushchev, tried to use the incident to his advantage. Through an unnamed "high-ranking" Republican, explained Khrushchev, Nixon "approached us with the request to release the crew members of the American RB-47. We of course understood that Nixon wished to make political capital out of this for himself in advance...
Writes Salinger: "I responded that the release of the RB-47 flyers before the election might very well have won it for Nixon. 'Of course,' said Khrushchev. 'For this reason, I said it would not be proper to do this. For you see, Nixon wanted to make it appear as if he had already arranged certain contacts with the Soviet government. And this, of course, would have played a decisive role in the election. That is why we decided to wait a while until Kennedy came to power, and only after that release the American flyers...