Word: allows
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...independent and called for Belgian intervention against the mutinous Force Publique. There was some momentary confusion when Tshombe, after announcing the independence of Katanga, seemed to reverse himself a day or two later. Disarmingly, he explained to reporters that his seeming about-face was "simply a cover-up to allow Belgium to move additional troops into Katanga," and that "it was prudent to help Belgium with this little story so that Belgium could help us." He also boasted that parts of Kivu and Kasai provinces, including the valuable Tshikapa diamond fields, were ready to join his Katanga state...
...would not be the first time.* But the oil refiners were convinced that Castro's squeeze would not end here: eventual confiscation seemed certain. Texaco sent its staff families home and prepared for further trouble. For months the Cuban government had refused to allow the oil companies to exchange pesos for hard currency to pay for crude. Remittances were more than $60 million in arrears. Moreover, using Russian oil would disrupt the well-to-pump integration that big oil companies count on for efficiency and profits. The companies decided to stand fast. Last week Castro sent two barges...
...outdoor bleacher is that rain and snow trickle through your clothing." These ideas may make training more expensive, and some oldtimers may complain that pink is too precious a color for this man's army, but Polich thinks it is well worth the expense. "If you allow a man to paint a bulldozer pink," he says, "it helps relieve him of the restrictions he feels the Army imposes on him, and he begins to think and have ideas...
...cloister, where the monks walk and meditate, but abandoned the idea because "it would be so beautiful that the monks would use it for an escape, which might prove perilous to their religious life." But he urged the Dominicans to "go up there from time to time. Let them allow you to go up as a reward for those who have been good boys." Presumably to make it more rewarding, he has made the doors leading onto the roof exceptionally narrow...
...newsmen was one that Hagerty could not be expected to answer. Why, they wondered, did the Japanese police permit the students to block Hagerty's route without even trying to disperse them? The answer supplied by Japanese claiming to be in the know: the Kishi government decided to allow the demonstrators plenty of rope in order to shock the Japanese public into active support of the government's often thwarted demand for sterner measures against leftists, including Kishi's demand for more powers for the badgered police. Said one Japanese: "Hagerty was used as the guinea...