Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Samuel Goldstein, to two years' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine apiece. Their offense: conspiracy and bribery in taking $10,000, plus a promise of $20,000 more, from the proprietors of two electroplating firms in 1955 and 1956 as the price of a worthless guarantee to stop the "labor trouble," i.e., collective-bargaining demands, the firms were having with a United Electrical Workers local. Ahead of Dio loomed further trials on charges of 1) extorting $11,500 from two New York City merchants,, 2) evading federal income taxes, and 3) plotting the 1956 acid-blinding of Manhattan Labor...
...Zorin bluntly brushed aside the laborious spell-out of the Western proposals to the U.N. Disarmament Subcommittee. This left Russia free to exploit the disarmament issue in the twelfth U.N. General Assembly session beginning next week. There Russia can again hard-sell the simple slogan, "Let's all stop nuclear tests...
...stop this arms rivalry some pundits and politicians (among them Walter Lippmann, British Laborite Hugh Gaitskell) argued that the West must negotiate with the Russians. This idea too worried some Arabs. Beirut's anti-Communist Al-Hayat complained that Big Four negotiations would be "going over our heads." But it also acknowledged: "Our entry by our own mistakes into the East-West struggle has made us lose the initiative." Added Beirut's French-language L'Orient: "This game can lead to nothing but a general conflagration or to a bargain between East and West. In the first...
...response will be the somewhat more qualified slogan: "We will agree to stop tests if you will agree to stop making bombs." The U.S. proposals implied a far greater degree of genuine disarmament, but by virtue of its very simplicity the Russian slogan was likely to have its appeal to "peace-loving" neutrals, while the Russian press keeps up its efforts to show the U.S. as a warmonger (see cartoon...
...been privately buttonholing M.P.s to warn them that by jumping headlong into foreign affairs problems that do not concern India, the country has needlessly alienated those countries best prepared to help it, i.e., the U.S., England, West Germany. Pant's foreign-policy solution: stay with neutralism but stop meddling...