Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans who found the deal repugnant. But President Kennedy was dis appointed. The prisoners weighed on his conscience: they had undertaken their invasion under his sponsorship, and his decision not to support them with U.S. air cover doomed whatever prospects for success they might have had. So the President undertook a second ransom effort, with less fanfare, working through the Cuban Families Committee-"Project X." the White House called...
...19th century, it was official U.S. policy that the Monroe Doctrine did not bar outside nations from using armed force against Latin American states to punish wrongs or to collect debts, as long as the attackers refrained from annexing territory or changing the form of government. But when Germany undertook a blockade of Venezuelan ports in 1902 to force the current dictator to pay claims due to German citizens, U.S. public opinion got so aroused that the Germans called off the blockade...
Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy undertook to undo that damage...
...light of these complaints and criticisms that McNamara last week undertook a full-scale review of the military space program. By a happy coincidence, he was able to an nounce final approval of plans to build the Titan III, due for use in 1964 or 1965, which will be nearly three times as powerful as the rockets that lifted the Russian Vostoks into orbit. The status of other key Air Force space projects reviewed by McNamara...
...Hamburg city administration felt small compulsion to go it alone to save Schlieker because his Hamburg workers were certain to land new jobs quickly in labor-short West Germany. So many of them did, in fact, that the neighboring shipyard which undertook to finish three of the big ships now on Schlieker's ways was having difficulty recruiting...