Word: unless
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Foster Dulles had in his hand a wire from U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock in Beirut, advising that Lebanon's President Chamoun was urgently requesting U.S. troops. The Dulles brothers outlined the problem: unless the U.S. acted soon, Lebanon would collapse, and quickly. Jordan would follow soon. The U.S. was morally bound to go to the aid of Lebanon, and there was just the faintest chance that a quick movement of troops to Lebanon might bolster whatever resistance there might still be in Iraq. The President's advisers agreed that U.S. intervention would surely reap hot Russian and Nasserian...
...another woolly bill, drafted to get around a Supreme Court decision: a 1956 ruling that, in effect, nullified state antisubversive laws on the grounds that federal legislation had pre-empted the field. Under the House measure, a federal law would not supersede a state law in the same area unless 1) Congress so specified, or 2) there was a "direct and specific conflict." Opponents warned that the bill would lead to endless jurisdictional tangles between federal and state laws in such fields as interstate commerce regulation, even civil rights. Senate prospects: very...
From the refusal of a dozen-odd union officials, i.e., hoodlums, to testify, from bits and pieces of testimony from frightened victims, from facts pieced together by committee investigators, a solid picture emerged: racketeers have cut a slice of Chicago's restaurant unions and intend, unless balked, to expand into a boundless labor empire. Their plan is brutally simple: sell the café proprietor "protection" from legitimate unionization and collect monthly "dues" from him for a fragment of his staff-a fragment that rarely knows it has been organized. The weapons are terror, extortion and violence, wielded in many...
...Provided that the President cannot overrule Tariff Commission recommendations for higher tariffs unless majority votes in both houses of Congress back...
...workers returned to their jobs, they found new work schedules that penalized strikers in favor of strikebreakers; e.g., Amusement Page Editor Henry Murdock was assigned to work for Reviewer Barbara Wilson, a former subordinate who had been given his editorship. The Teamsters threatened to walk out once more unless the old assignments were reinstated...