Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Galling Years. But can the U.S. safely pull out of Europe now or in the future? Obviously not now, or at least not all at once. The pullback becomes a matter of pace-De Gaulle notwithstanding. Basic American policy remains firmly rooted in the strength of the Atlantic Alliance and NATO, France or no. The shibboleths of the past still permeate American policy. Under Secretary of State George Ball presents the hardline position of the State Department's "theologians" in terms right out of the deep freeze...
...often seemed more martial than his field marshal. He hobnobbed with the lately ousted pro-Chinese Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio, openly disavowed Ayub's agreement in Tashkent to end the Indian war, rekindled old Indian hatreds by crudely referring to his neighbors as "Indian dogs," once threatened to pull Pakistan...
...tempers were cooling, and people were finally talking about something besides politics. So last week, in a meeting at Washington's Pan American Union, the Organization of American States voted 18 to 0 to withdraw the 8,000 OAS peace-keeping troops still in the Dominican Republic. The pull-out will take 90 days and begin before the inauguration of President-elect Balaguer on July...
...year's second quarter ends this week, and for savings and loan associations that is a time when depositors are tempted to pocket their quarterly dividends and then pull out their mon ey. To prevent wide-scale withdrawals and to attract funds for mortgages, Los Angeles' Home Savings and Loan Association, the nation's biggest, boosted the rate on regular passbook accounts from 5% to 5¼% , and on longer, 36-month savings to 5¾% . Other S & Ls followed suit but may be squeezed for profits at these rates because many are less efficient than Chairman...
...dark side. Even the lightest of his books is pervaded with that gloomy conviction. He disapproved of his century, his ambitions and himself. In 1866, when he was 31 and a relatively obscure journalist in San Francisco, he put a pistol to his head but could not pull the trigger. "Many times I have been sorry I did not succeed," he said, "but I was never ashamed of having tried...