Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prisoners' release with Bobby Kennedy-announced that he had finally gotten the unpredictable dictator at long last to sign an agreement. The terms: a freighter, carrying a cargo of drugs, would sail for Havana; the Bay of Pigs prisoners would be shuttled back aboard four jetliners to U.S. soil before Christmas. In Florida, where thousands of wives and children waited, smiles flickered on faces long drawn by dread...
...roofed stone house has neither hot water nor electricity. The men and women who inhabit it dress in monkish white costumes woven on their own looms, and advertise their faith by wearing wooden crosses on their breasts. They eat simple, vegetarian meals of food grown in the dry, sandy soil that they work with handmade tools. Five times a day they pause in their labor for prayers...
...challenge, the M.P.s cheered and pounded their desks. He denounced China as a "wholly irresponsible country that does not care about peace," an imperialist power in the 18th and 19th century tradition. He won the Indian nation with his refusal to negotiate until the last Chinese soldier left Indian soil...
...stumbling block in the tedious talks on a nuclear test ban as well as on general disarmament. There is no real reason to believe that this adamant position has changed; it is one thing to agree to let inspectors-and from the Red Cross, at that-on Cuban soil, another to let them into Russia. Still, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan rushed off a note to Moscow suggesting that the way might soon be opened for the first stage of disarmament...
Ever since Canada joined the U.S. in NORAD for air defense of the North American continent, one of the liveliest debates up north (though largely unheard down in the U.S.) has been the question of whether there should be nuclear weapons on Canadian soil. Canadian and U.S. airmen consider it vital to equip Canadian interceptors with nuclear-tipped air-to-air rockets, even more important to arm U.S.-supplied Bomarc antiaircraft missiles with atomic warheads. The latest Gallup poll on the subject shows that 61% of Canada's citizens agree. But Canadian External Affairs Secretary Howard Green, a staunch...