Word: unless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...analysis, whether or not anything useful was achieved would depend not only on Dwight Eisenhower, Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev. It would depend, too, on Gamal Abdel Nasser, a man who in the past has shown a blind determination to gratify his own imperialistic ambitions though the heavens fall. Unless Nasser renounced his habit of setting international forest fires in the calm assumption that someone else would put them out, no agreements achieved at any summit meeting could bring stability to the Middle East...
Reciprocal Trade. Before passing the Administration bill by a resounding vote of 72 to 16, the Senate knocked out the Senate Finance Committee's most damaging piece of butcherwork: a provision that the President may not overrule Tariff Commission recommendations for higher tariffs unless majority votes in both houses of Congress back him up (TIME, July 21). Co-sponsors of the amendment to undo the Finance Committee damage: Majority Leader Johnson and California's Minority Leader William Fife Knowland, joining forces in an overwhelming coalition. "This was not a party matter," said Johnson. "This was Congress standing there...
...three years the French had refused to run a pipeline from their Edjele oilfield in the Sahara (estimated reserves: 70 million metric tons) over its natural route through Tunisia to the Mediterranean, unless French troops were allowed to stay in southern Tunisia to protect it. De Gaulle abandoned the conditions. He told Tunisian Ambassador Mohammed Masmoudi: "We are not at all opposed to Tunisia having its share of the Sahara's resources." The French and Tunisians signed an agreement to build the pipeline across Tunisia at a cost of $95 million, which will give jobs to 2,000 Tunisians...
Though Upjohn claimed to have made it safer, the firm warned that 8-MOP is dangerous unless taken in strict accordance with doctors' orders: only two tablets a day, at least two hours before exposure to the sun, then tan very gradually-otherwise, a worse burn than without the drug. And it is emphatically not for children. So far, Upjohn has had no reports of severe mishaps, but nearly all dermatologists are still set against use of 8-MOP as a tanning aid, warn that it can cause stomach upsets and even liver damage...
That may be all the punishment he will get. Though the FBI charged him with swindling, Brazil has no extradition treaty with the U.S., and there is very little the Government can do to make him come home unless Brazil decides to cooperate...