Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign for competitive coexistence with Iraq, Nasser was able to take advantage of another set of coexisting competitors. Already accepting Soviet aid to build his Aswan Dam, Nasser last week signed an $8,000,000 agreement with the U.S. to resume the technical-aid program broken off in the Suez crisis...
...journey to the small Laotian town of Xiengkhouang, sell their surplus crop at about $30 a kilo to middlemen, hardheaded types who belong to something known as the Corsican brotherhood. From here the business gets into illicit channels and high prices. By pony caravan, or by light planes that take off from jungle airfields built by the French during their five-year war with Communist Viet Minh, the raw opium is transported to Bangkok and Hong Kong, bought by Chinese dealers at up to $1,000 a kilo and refined into morphine and heroin, as well as smokable opium. Smugglers...
...what it introduced and what it did not. How long the reforming move will last in Southeast Asia, no one knows. But if Hula-Hoops and B-girls are easily legislated against, wiping out opium will come harder, for hundreds of thousands of addicts remain whose cure will take time and money...
Peacemakers. At his press conference last week. President Eisenhower said that "there is no sense closing our eyes to the situations in Central America and the Caribbean; but we do look primarily to the OAS to take the initiative, otherwise we again could be called dollar imperialists or something else of that kind...
Diaz Lanz wrote a farewell letter to President Urrutia: "All those actions against me are due exclusively to the fact that I have always opposed an attitude which permits Communists to take prominent positions within the rebel army." The weakling President replied: "I absolutely reject Communist ideology," but within moments the palace recalled the letter, issued a substitute omitting Urrutia's anti-Communist statement. The government launched a nationwide man hunt for anti-Communist Diaz Lanz, but he got away, probably to Miami...