Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bound to emerge as the world's leading power, predicted Zhukov, making it clear that Russia ought to be included in the family. Even before the birth of the U.S., he said, "Dutch merchants traveled to St. Petersburg and Peter the Great came to Holland to learn a trade." This type of cooperation, he feels, continues today in such enterprises as the French Renault and Italian Fiat auto plants in the Soviet Union...
...refusing to grant travel documents to East Germans for trips to NATO countries, because the East Germans had carefully left U.S., British and French access rights untouched. For its part, the West German government was unwilling to hit Ulbricht where it would hurt him most-restricting inter-German trade-since that would also hurt the average East German. Kurt Kiesinger's Grand Coalition is committed to a policy of trying to make life easier, not harder, for the East German population. Furthermore, because of the partial success of its new Ostpolitik, Bonn does not want to lose friends...
...seeped into the consciences of TV's producers, as well as those of the network brass. Six days after the Robert Kennedy assassination, Jerry Paris, who directed the gentle and funny Dick Van Dyke Show, but who also had acted in The Untouchables, took advertisements in the Hollywood trade papers announcing: "I will no longer lend my talents in any way to add to the creation of the climate for murder. I have looked into the mirror. I see myself and the face of our industry. I do not like what...
...member nations were in the process of ratifying, one by one, creation of a new kind of international money, called special drawing rights, to supplement dollars, pounds and gold. S.D.R.s, bookkeeping entries designed to expand the reserves of individual countries, should help bankroll world trade. But, warns Bank for International Settlements President Jelle Zijlstra of The Netherlands, they "are not a panacea for the difficulties that must be dealt with...
...classic figure of the financial nether world, the Gnome of Zurich,* whose hunger for gold is only slightly less keen than his appetite for pessimism. The Gnome's credo: Men cannot manage their affairs rationally for very long periods. Hence, politicians promise things that cannot be paid for, trade balances totter, gold reserves slip away, and the dollar faces a crisis of belief...