Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coerced by the Red Army after World War II suddenly found a modicum of courage-though Khrushchev's tanks in Budapest and America's unwillingness to aid the Hungarian revolt with action made caution mandatory. But Moscow finally realized that it could no longer hope to retain loyalties in Eastern Europe by mere dictation. Russian forces began withdrawing from the satellites; by 1958, the 55,000 Red Army troops that had arrived in Rumania 14 years earlier under General Rodion Malinovsky were finally pulled out. By 1961, when the ideological debate between Moscow and Peking had escalated...
Guaranteed loans are simply not appropriate for the country's neediest college students, those whose families will be unable to negotiate loans privately; NDEA loans are easily accessible to the poorest. College administrators envision a two-headed federal loan program; they would like to retain National Defense loans, on a much smaller basis, and also establish a guaranteed loan program for middle-income families. If Congress wants to make the best--and today that unfortunately means the most costly--higher education available to rich and poor, it will follow the college's advice...
Martin L. Kilson Jr., lecturer on government, asserted that the army is sure to retain control of Ghana. Nkrumah ran "an authoritarian regime with a fair dose of terrorism," Kilson said. He added that the people of Ghana resented Nkrumah's extravagant expenditures to promote the doctrine of Pan-Africanism...
...general-purpose transport, has an over-the-road speed of better than 30 m.p.h. Some new items already in the engineers' toolbox: aluminum landing mats, plastic road surfaces (called "membranes"), and moisture-proof plastic maps that can be wadded up and tucked into a shirt pocket and still retain their original shape...
...nights, delegates from the six Common Market nations haggled in Luxembourg over the proposals laid down by France as its terms for re-entry into EEC talks. Finally, the Six approved a compromise plan that formalized an agreement to disagree. On the crucial question of whether France could retain its veto over "major" EEC decisions, the plan noted only that "a difference of opinion exists"-implying that the Five would lean over backwards to avoid getting involved in anything all that important. It was nothing like the virtual rewrite of the veto provision in the Treaty of Rome once threatened...