Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hollow Boast. Sitting nervously among the big nuclear powers were the eight "middlemen" of the U.N. disarmament meeting, the delegates of Brazil, Burma, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden and Egypt. Many were utter novices in the murky technicalities of the cold war, but, being wooed by both East and West, they soon rallied under the leadership of India's V. K. Krishna ("The Unspeakable") Menon. Brazil's Foreign Minister Francisco San Thiago Dantas, for example, criticized the Soviet Union for last fall's tests, went right ahead to urge the U.S. to cancel its own spring series...
...build a nuclear capability, including weapons of war. The basic technology is well understood, the engineering problems have been simplified, and the cost, so staggering in the early days, has been pared to the point where a bang can be bought for $500 million. Such advanced nations as Italy, Sweden, West Germany and Japan could obviously do it. So, too, say U.S. scientists, could Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, India, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico...
...labor-cost advantage seems secure because the U.S. is so far ahead in real terms. The current trend in average hourly labor costs (wages plus most fringe benefits) in manufacturing industries: 1959 1961 (est.) Netherlands $ .57 $ .66 Italy .61 .66 France .71 .83 Britain .77 .85 Germany .78 .94 Sweden...
...Sorensen, Johnson is the only Administration official who regularly attends Cabinet meetings, National Security Council sessions, the weekly White House conference with legislative leaders and the briefings before presidential press conferences. He has acted as the President's personal representative on missions to Africa, to Southeast Asia, to Sweden for Dag Hammarskjold's funeral, and to Berlin just after the East Germans threw up the Wall...
...first installment, Fox alone has taken six years of work. To underpin his imagination, Hughes read through the entire Nürnberg trial transcript, traveled to Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Poland to interview "dozens" of people who knew Hitler personally in the Munich days-including a boy who used to call Hitler "Uncle Dolph." His prize find: an old newspaper file containing the diary of a participant in the 1923 Munich putsch...