Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...touched on most of these problems routinely. The Assembly, he noted, could hardly even consider seating Peking-the regime that "hurls insults upon the peaceful efforts" of the U.N. But in the area of disarmament, Goldberg unveiled some new policy proposals. The U.S., he said, is now ready "to transfer 60,000 kilograms of weapons-grade U-235 to non-weapon uses if the Soviet Union would be willing to transfer 40,000 kilograms." The energy in 60,000 kilograms of uranium 235 is roughly equal to two-thirds of the total electricity consumption of the U.S. for a whole...
...Committee, which sets policy for Boston's public schools. For months she has been waging a determined fight to keep Negroes from busing their children out of the black districts into white neighborhood schools, even though the city has an "open enrollment" policy that permits any child to transfer to any school where there is room...
...root of the problem is the ejido system of land reform, enshrined in Mexico's constitution of 1917. Individual peasants are given the use of small farms on government reserves or expropriated land, which they can transfer to their children but cannot sell or mortgage to obtain desperately needed bank loans. The result is the atomization of landholdings: most Mexican farms average 15 acres in size. Grinding poverty has led to peasant invasions of private land in some states, notably Tlaxcala and Oaxaca, and the government has been forced to use soldiers to drive out the squatters...
...source close to the Kennedy family said yesterday that details of the transfer of land were expected to be ironed out at a meeting held yesterday. The land transfer question was the only thing blocking an immediate decision to put the Library on the MBTA Yards...
...Tactful Transfer. Still, red-haired Green is a tough, talented envoy who thrives on contrasts and postings where U.S. influence is, to put it mildly, mild. He underwent his apprenticeship as personal secretary to the late, gallant U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Clark Grew (TIME, June 4, 1965) during the last stormy days before Pearl Harbor. As officer in charge of the U.S. embassy in Seoul in 1961, when General Chung Hee Park unseated the democratically elected President John Chang, Green outspokenly opposed the unconstitutionality of the new government, after which the State Department tactfully transferred him to Hong Kong...