Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...busing of at least 31,000 students. The Home and School Committee, which represents the interests of many South Boston parents wants a holding action pending an appeal of Garrity's decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. While the State Board of Education calls for a "controlled transfer system," a modification of the present busing system, the NAACP's proposal advocates busing in conjunction with a system of neighborhood schools...
...Finance Commission's report urges the disbanding of the Boston School Committee for fiscal reasons. NSCAR should profit from this opportunity to join in supporting the transfer of control of Boston schools to their respective communities, and this implies a certain recognition of self-determination for blacks...
Soviet weapons exports are completely run by the government, since all industry is state-owned. Moscow's Chief Engineering Directorate currently handles all arms negotiations, sales, shipments and transfer agreements. Customers have been delighted to find that not only do the Soviets offer cheap credit, but they also sell at cut-rate prices. Moscow recently offered to sell some MIG-21s to Peru at one-third of what the comparable American-made F-5 would cost ($2 million). There is one hitch, however, in buying from the Russians: as Egypt has learned, it is sometimes very difficult to get Soviet...
...major roles in the early stages of the new states, their demands for more equipment can seldom be ignored. "No military branch wants to be saddled with old or obsolete equipment that reflects adversely on the dignity of the service," dryly notes a 1973 Rand Corp. study on the transfer of arms to Latin America...
...clause"?a promise by the purchaser not to sell weapons to a third party without permission of the original exporting state?has had only limited success. Washington has been unable to prevent Pakistan from using American-supplied arms against India, even though the original transfer agreement with Islamabad specifically forbade it. The end-use clause obviously did not prevent Libya from loaning its French-made Mirages to Egypt for use against Israel...