Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FOREIGN AID. The Administration will seek substantial increases, particularly in military support. Despite the obvious argument for such aid as a corollary to defense, the first rumblings from returnees to the Hill indicate trouble. Among the probable troublemakers: Louisiana's Otto Passman, chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee that controls the Mutual Security purse strings, a bitter foe of foreign...
LABOR. The McClellan committee will continue its investigations, moving from the Teamsters Union to Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers and on to David McDonald's Steelworkers, winding up with a bill designed to halt abuses by labor leaders that is likely to get wide support in Congress...
...Navy doctrine holds that the mobility of aircraft carriers gives them an advantage over land air bases. Result: billions are committed to both systems, even though Navy bombers and Air Force bombers are both ways of waging similar sorts of strategic nuclear war-each requiring distinct and gigantic support systems. So far, the J.C.S. have been unable to come to any kind of decision to prevent such overlapping effort...
...ranks of the West. But when the Soviets countered with a coup that put proCommunists on top of Syria's army, the U.S. blundered into trouble, airlifting arms to neighboring Jordan with such zealous haste that even its Arab friends felt obliged to pledge ritually their support to the Syrians in the name of Arab unity. At home, the big U.S. news of 1957 was the unhappy sight of paratroopers with bayonets, called out reluctantly by President Eisenhower to enforce a federal court order admitting Negro pupils to Little Rock's Central High School over the defiance of Arkansas' Governor...
...Middle East Nikita Khrushchev posed as an altruist. Advancing $563 million in arms and economic aid to the Arab nationalists of Syria and Egypt, he cried: "Is Nasser a Communist? Certainly not. But nevertheless we support Nasser. We have only one objective, that the peoples be freed from colonial dependence." Last week Pravda offered the pro-Western Arab states of Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq "ready Soviet Union cooperation in economic development," if they too would accept "the same [i.e., neutralist] principles" as Syria and Egypt...