Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provide needed water for crop irrigation. He faces a terrifying task: keeping India's 500 million people from slipping into starvation if this year's crops fall below expectations-as they well may. -1ndia could go a long way toward closing its $1 billion a year trade gap if only it attracted more tourists. Indira selected an interesting man from an interesting state for the job. New Tourism Minister Karan Singh, 36, is the Maharajah of Kashmir and, as such, is the first Indian prince ever to serve in a Cabinet. His talents as a Sanskrit scholar...
Among the countries of the European Free Trade Association and the European Economic Community, the internationalization of marketing has been achieved, Heath said, but there has been no comparable progress in production. Because of the refusal of firms in different countries to work together on international undertakings, European technology has remained relatively backward, he said...
...does need to be rationalized. But the trouble with Johnson's plans is that the District administrators will have the same limitations as they did before. Any disgruntled agency--the Metropolitan Police, for example--can still run to Capitol Hill with its complaints. And the Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade will no doubt continue to be the city's unofficial government through its relationships, above and below board, with members of the House District Committee...
...more significant reply was that of the president of the Board of Trade (also anti-home rule), who praised the provisions for representation in Congress and said that the rest of the plan was under study. After home-rule opponents consider the plan carefully, they will undoubtedly realize its potential for completely derailing the home-rule movement. The Board of Trade has always favored D.C. representation in Congress because it has dealt satisfactorily with favorite Congressmen...
...Johnson package is accepted, the Board of Trade will have all that it has ever wanted in the way of D.C. enfranchisement. There will no doubt be a sizeable number of Negroes on the proposed Council, and maybe even a Negro Commissioner. This biracial composition of the appointed government, together with a biennial Congressional election, can be used to show the House that D.C. citizens already play an active part in city affairs and that no further' self-government is needed...