Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where the Brains Are. CTIP is McKee's European foothold and a sizable operator in its own right. The firm has orders on its books for refineries and petrochemical plants worth $100 million. Last March, only one month after McKee appointed him joint managing director, CTIP's Gian Vittono Cavanna started secret negotiations with Technip, a French government-owned engineering firm. Without telling McKee, Cavanna signed a general agreement calling for a reshuffling of CTIP ownership among Technip, McKee and Italian companies. The idea was that divided leadership would enable CTIP employees to run their company themselves, rather...
Mboya thought of himself as an African socialist, that catchall for moderate African reformers who favor mixed economies. Thoroughly pro-Western, with close ties both to the U.S. and Britain (he spent a year at Oxford), Mboya had no use for Soviet and Chinese efforts to gain a foothold in Kenya. It was on that issue that Mboya and his principal political enemy, Oginga Odinga, collided. Odinga, a Luo like Mboya, is an emotional, radical tribalist with Communist leanings and support. Mboya helped oust Odinga as Vice President...
Even if the Arab states should crack down, the fedayeen now have a powerful outside friend, China, which has offered them "full and unqualified support" and "volunteers" if needed. Last week China seemed closer still to getting a substantial foothold in the Middle East. The government of Syria, evidently angered at Russia's slowdown in arms deliveries, dispatched to Peking a delegation headed by Chief of Staff Major General Mustafa Tlas. One possible result of that mission would be an agreement to supply Syria with arms, thereby giving Peking its first substantial influence over a Middle East government...
...sanity left to them is sticking a rifle out their apartment window and joining in the blood bath. Director Alan Arkin has staged all this with the frenzy and craziness we associate with Feiffer's art work, and his cast is perfect--daffy and ludicrous, with enough of a foothold in reality to render the whole thing at once hilarious and frightening...
...Ussuri and have called for a negotiated settlement of the issue, the competition continues. The immediate aim of both sides is to recruit supporters for the world meeting of Communist parties, now scheduled for June 5 in Moscow. The long-range objective is to gain a strong foothold in the adversary's own backyard...