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- 441: Palestine
- ... which was used by Arab guerrillas for raids into southern Israel. Egypt's blockade of Israeli shipping in the Suez Canal and Gulf of Aqaba intensified the hostilities. These escalating tensions converged with the SUEZ CRISIS caused by the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egyptian president Gamal NASSER. Great Britain and France strenuously objected to Nasser's policies, and a joint military campaign was planned against Egypt with the understanding ... of Aqaba would be closed again to Israeli shipping. At the end of May, Egypt and Jordan signed a new defense pact placing Jordan's armed forces under Egyptian command. Efforts to de-escalate the crisis were of no avail. Israeli and Egyptian leaders visited the United States, but President Lyndon Johnson's attempts to persuade Western powers to guarantee free passage through the Gulf failed. Believing that war was inevitable ...
- 442: Thomas P. O'Neill
- ... 233) He outlined instructions for Johnson in the letter. They are as follows: "1) Stop further escalation and attempt to bring the conflict before the UN. 2) Stop bombing of the North. 3) Promote an Asian solution to an Asian problem." He sent the letter and told his sun Tommy that he had signed "his political death warrant." (Edwards 25) People in Boston wanted to kill Tip but he knew it was the right thing ...
- 443: Newfoundland
- ... renovations needed in the building. Over the years, the Women's Centre has also housed the Newfoundland Chapter of the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League, Women's Health Education Project, The St. John's Rape Crisis and Information Centre, and, the committee that founded the province's first shelter for battered women and their children. The Social Realm What was and still is instrumental in the development of all the political ... Men, with their moustaches and their chiselled faces, managed somehow to become monuments to themselves in their coffins. Women, when they turned cold, left blank. Bibliography Clark, Rex. Contrary winds: essays on Newfoundland society in crisis. Breakwater, 1986, St. John's, Nfld. MacFarlane, David. The Danger Tree. MacFarlane, Walter and Ross; Toronto, Ontario Mackenzie, David Clark. Inside the Atlantic triangle: Canada and the entrance of Newfoundland into Confederation, 1939-1949. 1953 ...
- 444: Mexico
- ... continue operations. VII. Opinion The signs are growing ever stronger that Mexico's determined adherence to its economic austerity program is setting the stage for a remarkably solid and sustainable recovery from the recent financial crisis. The country's Bolsa stock index has rebounded more than 60 percent from its February low, the peso has stabilized, compared to what it has done in the past, and Mexico's recent $500 million ... and economic integration is paying off and will be reflected in the overall strengthening of the Mexican peso against the U.S. dollar in the long run. REFERENCES Banda, M., (1995, September 5). Economic, Political Crisis Shadows Zedillo's First National Address. Associated Press, Internet (WWW), http://www1.trib.com/NEWS/APwire.html. Briones, J., (1995, September 4). NAFTA's Broken Promises. Public Citizen Publication, p.10. Dean, D., (1995, September ...
- 445: Employee Assistance Programs
- ... policies, based on the information gathered from the initial assessment stage. There need to be specific procedures in place so that managers and supervisors know exactly what to do when there is an employee in crisis and when to take action. Employees also need to see a clear path to getting their needs met. Organizing and implementing is a long process. After setting goals and creating a working system, the EAP ... are terminated for any number of reasons, including the service plan has been implemented, the service is no longer needed, and the client is not making progress. Case evaluation - the services are evaluated for effectiveness. Crisis Intervention - immediate client service because of serious conditions. Aftercare - professional assistance that continues after the case has closed, such as therapy and job reentry assistance (70-74). The control function of the EAP is a ...
- 446: Australia
- ... goal of ANZCERTA is to become a single trade entity representing a unified economic front. In the next ten years they hope to remain committed to the same economic goals and effectively compete with the Asian Pacific region through their alliances to the commonly known APEC (Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation). APEC is the formation of trade alliances among 18 countries in the south pacific region of the world. The leaders of these countries meet regularly to discuss ways of improving liberal trade ...
- 447: Lyndon Johnson
- ... Robert C. Weaver was selected to be the secretary of housing and urban development. (Peter Lisagor, 149-151) Thurgood Marshall was set as the first Negro Supreme Court justice(Robert S. Summers, 2). The Railroad Crisis, in April of 1964, plunged Johnson into on of America's toughest labor disputes. After years of disputing between union workers and train companies over work rules the companies announced new rules that resulted in ... United States. A Cold War with Russia and other Communist countries kept the world in continual danger of a nuclear war. This problem has been around for some of Kennedy's term. The first real crisis in foreign affairs for Johnson was in early 1964 when anti-U.S. riots broke out in the Canal Zone. The tension eased after Johnson agreed with Panama's president to discuss outstanding problems.(Peter ...
- 448: Doing Business Ion Germany
- ... themselves on speaking their mind. Clarity of understanding is the prime goal of communication. Whereas relationship-focused negotiators often use indirect, oblique communication, Germans value direct, frank, explicit, low-context language. They sometimes suspect Arab, Asian and Latin American negotiators of trying to mislead them with vague, ambiguous responses when in reality these high-context people are simply trying to maintain harmony and avoid giving offense. Conversely, business visitors from cultures ... pumps) with direct eye contact. Some Germans believe that a soft handshake reflects weakness and that lack of eye contact indicates shiftiness, unreliability or even dishonesty. To avoid giving the wrong impression, East and Southeast Asian visitors accustomed to a gentler grip and less intense gaze behavior should prepare themselves accordingly. The exchange of business cards is less formal than in East and Southeast Asia but less casual than in North ...
- 449: Consensus Historians
- ... people, politics, and past are unlike any of the world and the people must cherish this and embrace it. In the words of J.R. Pole in the Pastmaster, "during the period when the international crisis of Cold War was compounded by the domestic crisis of McCarthyism, and part of the purpose was to give his countrymen some historical bearing by which they could help to steady themselves" (Kraus & Joyce pg. 322). Boorstin then went on to publish a series ...
- 450: The Green Revolution in Asia
- ... money that the countries need to pay for the seeds and machinery is borrowed from other countries. This borrowing does not help the developing countries but puts them, in most cases, into a deeper financial crisis. The environment also pays the price for the revolution. The new plant varieties use a lot of minerals from the ground and the soil that they grow in is being abused. The soil loses much ... be given back to the environment and preserved for the forests and grasslands. Pollution is so bad in China that most satellites cannot take accurate pictures of certain major cities. To combat the coming food crisis, China has started a seed project where the government promotes the use of hybrid seeds and sponsors a seed bank and makes a seed market. This system will result in a chain seed industry by ...
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