Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under this scheme, a final vote on in stalling the missiles themselves could be deferred until next year without causing significant delay in the present Safe guard schedule. (The first two sites were to be fully operational by early...
...local Communists regarded Castro as a competitor and did not help his guerrillas. Also, Russia was not sympathetic to Castro's calls for drastic action. Its strategy calls for a via pacifica in Latin America. The Soviets hope that local conditions, abetted by U.S. blunders, will play into their scheme of things. At present, their great hope is for making serious inroads in Peru, where the nationalistic military junta is pointedly turning to the Soviets to step up its feud with the U.S. over the American-owned International Petroleum Company. Though Castroism has caused fewer factions in Communism than...
Most of these arguments-from-practicality could easily be mistaken for old-style conservatism. In April, most of them were. The one application of Calkins' theory that come as a surprise to most students was his "elegant dissent" scheme...
...plight of the Biafrans rekindled his sympathies for the outgunned and inspired an improbable, wildly romantic scheme: to marshal pilots and planes and create an instant air force for the planeless Biafrans. Last week, as the Biafran rebellion against Nigeria neared its second anniversary, Von Rosen and his flyers attacked the Nigerian airport at Benin, reported damage to one MIG and several civilian planes sitting on the ground. That raid and two earlier forays, which damaged British- and Russian-made Nigerian planes at Enugu and Port Harcourt, eased the pressure on Biafra's landing strip at Uli. With...
...very large firms." It proposed a "Concentrated Industries Act" that would apply when four or fewer firms controlled 70% of an industry with $500 million a year in sales. Each firm would be forced to reduce its share of the market to no more than 12%. The scheme would break up the Big Three automakers, as well as leaders in aluminum, computers and other fields...