Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Idaho's Henry Dworshak in opposition) to recommend $4.3 billion in new and carried-over money for the program. Aside from the total sum itself, the big clash was over an amendment by Knowland and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges to cut off military aid to Yugoslavia. The amendment was defeated, but the pair have promised to renew the battle when the bill goes to the balky Senate this week. Predicted Minnesota's Edward Thye wearily: "We're going to have a hard and bitter fight...
...Atom. Answering pleas by India, Yugoslavia and Russia that the U.S. stop testing nuclear weapons, U.S. Delegate (to the U.N. Disarmament Commission) James J. Wadsworth last week replied that 1) the tests "do not constitute a hazard" when properly conducted; 2) the U.S., in the interests of its own and free world security, will continue the tests until agreement is reached to limit nuclear weapons "under proper safeguards...
Last March West Germany agreed to give Yugoslavia $74 million in World War II reparations and long-term loans. But now that Tito had gone to Moscow and talked about Germany's "two sovereign states," Bonn feared he was about to recognize the puppet East German regime. Despite private assurances that Tito would not do so, the Adenauer government last week pointedly allowed West Germany's Bundestag to adjourn for the summer without ratifying the Yugoslav treaty. "Blackmail," cried Yugoslavia's Politika, but West Germany is prepared to wait until Tito's assurances sound as loud...
...some ironing out of details, and is also stalled by U.S. reconsideration of where Nasser stands since his arms deal with Communist Czechoslovakia.) To get the Russian loan, Nasser would have to mortgage Egypt's all-important cotton crops for 20 years. Nasser asked advice of his friend, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, an old hand at playing roulette with Russia. Tito warned him to beware of the Russian habit of turning trade on and off for political purposes. The Yugoslavs, said Expert Tito, have developed a rule of thumb: not more than 25% of a nation...
...plain woman devoid of jewelry or makeup, the U.S.S.R.'s top lady Communist, Ekaterina Furtseva, 46, an alternate member of the Soviet Party Presidium and wife of the Soviet Ambassador to Yugoslavia, arrived in London on her first trip to the West. Slated to be a fort night's guest of the British Inter-Parliamentary Union, Comrade Furtseva, accompanied by her daughter Svetlana, 14, overflowed with gratitude for her invitation, glowingly lauded the growing affinity between the U.S.S.R. and the country of "Newton, Shakespeare and Byron...