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Particularly since the 1962 Cuban missile debacle, which helped hasten the fall of Nikita Khrushchev, Moscow has played for smaller stakes at great cost and scant return (see box). One investment it could not liquidate, however, was the Middle East. With the decline of Western influence and the rise of Arab nationalism in the 1950s, the volatile, petroliferous Moslem world became an irresistible and comparatively safe target for Russia's rulers. Their main goal, in the Middle East as elsewhere, was to displace U.S. influence. The ultimate cost of Russia's aid to the Arab world was between $3 billion...
...Soviet news outlets gave the initial meeting, scant notice. Radio Moscow waited until midnight before announcing that the meeting had ever been held...
...families who lived in those apartments and duplexes, only 114 found their way into public housing, while nearly 1,700 families disappeared entirely from official records. Though 25,000 Cleveland families are eligible for public housing, only 7,478 units are available, and a scant 2,500 more are planned for the near future. Much of the fault lies with lackadaisical Democratic Mayor Ralph Locher, who took over Cleveland's fate when Anthony Celebrezze was called to Washington as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1962, and whose five-year-old administration has monumentally botched an ambitious slum...
...seat, or copilot) spotted 15 slower but more maneuverable MIG-17s coming up fast during a fighter-bomber raid 40 miles northeast of the Communist capital. The ensuing scramble lasted only eleven minutes ("It seemed like eight hours," says Olds) and ranged from 9,000 ft. down to a scant 100 ft. above the deck...
...number of students -- graduating seniors and those not interested in summer work -- naturally drop out of the program in June. Ehrensperger said he was now trying to manipulate the scant funds to assure summer jobs for the rest...