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Give & Take. Along with the chance for new U.S. influence on the satellites through economic and diplomatic channels will come another important change. By dealing openly and often with some Iron Curtain countries, the U.S. may be able to wean the satellites away from their complete dependence on Russia. Said a State Department man: "To legitimize these regimes contributes to the relaxation internationally and the emergence of national identities in the bloc. That we want to see. It's in our interest to help build up their prestige...
Several steps are required to wean our allies away from their dreams of nuclear prowess and to draw them into a coordinated nuclear command structure. The Administration should give allied governments more detailed information about our nuclear weapons, even at the cost of certain risks to security. Such information should hopefully reassure them that the U.S. had adequate nuclear forces specifically earmarked for the defense of Europe...
...years water-craving northeasterners built dams willy-nilly, saw them fill up in the rainy season, then slowly and uselessly dry out when the rains stopped. Furtado plans to send the stored water through irrigation canals, increase irrigated acreage from 37,000 acres to 247,000. He hopes to wean farmers away from one or two soil-killing crops, put wasteland to work, build silos and warehouses to store food for lean years. Electricity lines are already snaking into the northeastern backlands, industry is getting tax reductions and other incentives to move in to make use of plentiful labor. Last...
...South Viet Nam, U.S. money and U.S. leadership have slowly begun to wean the Vietnamese defense forces away from the "Let's spend the night in the fort" concept of guerrilla fighting that they learned from the French. But the whole establishment is threatened by 350,000 well-armed Viet Minh Communists from north of the 17th parallel. Cambodia, citadel of Southeast Asian neutralism, and Laos are the weakest spots in the defense chain...
...witness that his hands are clean and his heart is pure has recently been giving the church in Russia a hard time. A more flexible kind of anti-Christian than Stalin, Khrushchev put new life into Russian atheism, began recruiting renegade churchmen instead of party hacks to wean Russians away from the temptations of religion...