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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Meanwhile, U.S. spacemen are working on huge rockets, Saturn and Nova, with thrusts far greater than any known Soviet rocket, but Saturn will not be ready until 1963, according to present plans, and Nova not until...
...Foreign aid, he told Adenauer and Erhard, was "not urgent"; what the U.S. needed was cash, and it needed it faster than any foreign-aid program could deliver. Anderson followed this up with further demands that Germany 1) start paying immediately a good part of the U.S.'s present share (37%) of the cost of jointly run NATO facilities such as pipelines, depots, etc.; 2) start easing immediately quotas and other restrictions on U.S. farm exports; 3) take over from the U.S. the burden of making free military-assistance deliveries to such relatively impecunious NATO members as Turkey...
...would shame them into anteing up, or at least shame them. On the second day of the talks. Erhard stonily declared that the Germans could not agree to pay for U.S. troop support. But after a series of mealy-mouthed pleas about the "illusory" state of Germany's present wealth, Erhard began to give some ground. His government, he said, was ready to re-examine the idea of joining with all other NATO members in some device through which Germany could contribute to paying such NATO costs (perhaps up to $150 million, his aides indicated). Germany was willing...
Time & Tolerance. Despite the favorable omens under which Nigeria was born, the burdens on Sir Abubakar's slender shoulders are awesome. The diversity that gives Nigeria's government a kind of built-in system of checks and balances also poses the ever-present threat of fragmentation; to weld Nigeria's 250 major tribes with as many languages into a single, indivisible nation will require not only time but tolerance. With only 175,000 pupils receiving secondary education, schools are desperately needed. In terms of university graduates, Nigeria is better off than the Congo, but there are still...
Economically, Nigeria is a "have" nation by African standards, is close to self-sufficiency in food. But with a per capita income of only $84, capital is lacking to move the economy beyond its present agricultural base. Tin, columbite (for jet-engine alloys) and coal are all being exported, but there is no money to develop the lead, zinc and iron ore that have been found in quantity. Abubakar dreams of building West Africa's first steel mill and a huge dam on the Niger. But the big hope is oil. After 25 years, Shell finally hit a gusher...