Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Power & Homes. The bank was set up in 1960 to step in where private banks and other international lending institutions feared to tread. Under its able and imaginative president, Felipe Herrera, 41, a Chilean economist, el BID has granted longterm, low-interest loans for hydroelectric power in such marginal-risk areas as Guatemala and Paraguay. About 35% of its loans are for agricultural projects, which often get a cool reception from international bankers. Last year the Mexican government received $30.5 million to reclaim and settle 130,000 desolate acres in the southeastern state of Tabasco, while Venezuela and the Dominican...
...others, Senator Fulbright distinguishes between a country's internal Communism, with which the U.S. supposedly has no quarrel, and expansionist Communism. From that, it may be a short step to thinking of "good" Communists (Moscow) and "bad" Communists (Peking...
...message sent by Washington to him was shown to the British by the State Department." Within 48 hours, the messages were "relayed by the British, either through India or through the Russian Embassy in London, to the Chinese Communists." Thus, said Lucas, the Chinese Communists "knew in advance every step he proposed to take," and, in fact, entered the Korean conflict only "after being assured by the British that MacArthur would be ham strung and could not effectively oppose them." MacArthur had long since made similar charges. In 1956, he publicly charged that British Spies Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean...
...involved 85% of Belgium's 12,000 physicians and dentists, the nation showed no serious ill effects. Hundreds of doctors remained defiantly self-exiled in Luxembourg, France and The Neth erlands, protesting the government's fee-fixing medical insurance plan that strike leaders condemn as the first step toward socialized medicine and an unwarranted invasion of the privacy be tween doctor and patient. Despite a number of possibly preventable deaths, and two doctors held for questioning, there was so far no real case against the medical profession for "fatal negligence," thanks largely to the service degarde - a skeleton...
Sayre had requested earlier this week that he be allowed to appear personally before the Executive Committee as the next step in his fight for tenure at the Medford campus...