Word: program
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...message to the state defense council, Republican Rockefeller said fallout protection "is essential to our military defense . . . our negotiating strength . . . to the deterrence of war . . . and our ability to withstand nuclear blackmail." Estimated cost of Rocky's program: $1.5 billion. On a do-it-yourseli basis, a homeowner with a basement might build his shelter for about $50 a person; he would pay at least twice as much if a contractor did the job. To sweeten the plan, shelters would be exempt from local real estate taxes and construction costs could be deducted from state income...
...astonished Norwegian Foreign Office hurriedly arranged a program for Mikoyan, and wondered what important object the wily Anastas had in mind. In his first speech in Norway, Mikoyan declared that the Soviet Union had never attacked any country (Finnish, Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian papers, please copy) and would not attack Norway either. Turning to Prime Minister Gerhardsen, he asked: "Can you promise me the same?" Said one stunned Norwegian: "Has Mikoyan come here simply to get a promise that Norway will not attack the Soviet Union...
Moving Missiles. Most noteworthy of the budget increases is in Britain, where new Defense Minister Harold Watkinson, a hard-hitting businessman, last week proposed to increase defense spending by $300 million, to nearly $4.6 billion. Wat-kinson's program had good news for NATO: Britain has abandoned "for the time being" its plans to cut back British air and ground units in West Germany...
Brazil's Oct. 3 presidential election, the most important political event of the year in Latin America, will pit a stone-spined old soldier with a leftwing, nationalist program against a fiery-eyed spellbinder whose platform is austere conservatism. One afternoon last week the old soldier, Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, 65, resigned as War Minister in order "to go into the arena with no privileges or priorities." Then the red-cheeked descendant of Dutch-English immigrants slipped into mufti in an adjoining room, walked out to a waiting Jeep, and drove off through popping firecrackers...
Inflation Program. Lott is also the candidate of President Juscelino Kubi-tschek's Social Democrats, a party of bureaucrats and big landholders, and he thereby inherits Kubitschek's policy of forced-draft development through inflation. Lott thus has all the massive backing that elected Kubitschek...