Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moderate" Negro leaders, they have come up with proposals that only recently might have struck many Americans as most immoderate. One such scheme is A. Philip Randolph's "Freedom Budget," originally proposed two years ago. It would wipe out the ghettos, provide a guaranteed annual income, increase spending on education, housing, vocational training and health services. The price tag: $185 billion over a ten-year period...
Troubled Allies. The planned withdrawal is as much due to Britain's strict austerity drive-initiated a year ago-as it is to De Gaulle. The British are having a hard time trying to wipe out their foreign-trade deficit and shore up the pound, which last week was shakier than it has been for a year, partly because of trade losses stemming from the war in the Middle East. Thus, the $384 million that Britain paid last year for the upkeep of bases outside Europe looked like a luxury. Healey intends to cut this figure to about...
...British and West German shipping will still deprive the government of $1,000,000 a week in tolls. Then there is cotton, Egypt's second biggest foreign-exchange earner after the canal. Because there is no money to spare for urgently needed insecticides, leafworms threaten to wipe out 30% of this year's crop. In desperation, the government sent almost 500,000 schoolchildren into the fields last week to pick leafworms off the plants. "We have yet another aggression on our hands," noted Cairo's weekly Rose Al Youssef wryly. "We must mobilize...
...suggested lamely, was U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Foreign Minister Birame Mamadou Wane of Mauritania argued that Israel's "Zionist expansionism" was somehow connected to apartheid in South Africa. Syrian President Noureddin Attassi, who spent most of his time before the war inciting Arab armies to "wipe Israel off the face of the earth," charged that "Israeli neocolonialism is based in its essence on the total extermination of the Arab people." And Israel would not stop with the Arabs, warned Egypt's Deputy Prime Minister Mahmoud Fawzi: "In 1956, Egypt was singled out for attack. In 1967, Syria...
...conscious mobs have ripped off wigs and lopped off artificially straightened hair when they have cornered Zambian girls who have tried to Westernize their locks. Users of skin-lightening creams have had their faces plastered with mud; bright lipstick has been forcibly removed with sandpaper. "We are determined to wipe out this sort of thing," explains one U.N.I.P. youth official...