Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shore up the near-bankrupt fund; the House is expected to do the same. In addition, Carter wants to boost payroll taxes for employers alone, but Congress is expected to approve a stop-gap hike in taxes for both employers and employees. Welfare reform is coming under increasing attack from groups that feel threatened by it. Labor, for example, is worried that the creation of 1.4 million public-service jobs at the $2.30 minimum-wage level will have a depressing effect on wage scales around the country...
...Rhodesian Action Party. Among the diehard Afrikaner ranchers of Nuanetsi, near Belingwe, the gloom is virtually impenetrable. Last week most farmers there cast their ballots by mail; nowadays they rarely venture far from their fortified homes. Reason: during one terrifying two-week period in July, a different homestead was attacked every day. The Belingwe Tribal Trust Land has become what one Swiss missionary calls "occupied territory"; the guerrillas are there, the government knows it, but the army cannot do much about it. The guerrillas attack anything connected with government, however beneficial to the populace or nonpolitical the target might...
...while, things run smoothly enough. But then the regime's Socialist and Communist partners begin bickering. The Communists attack Mitterrand when he decides to refuse to nationalize a failing acetate firm, insisting that the party "has not come to power to close plants!" In turn, Mitterrand blasts the Communists as "demagogic and irresponsible...
...attack on the star has made him a wanted man, but it has also made him a minor celebrity, since a television news team happened to be on the scene when the fight occurred. Moreover, his prison record gives him-in the C. and W. world anyway-a suitably romantic aura. Tina arranges for him to do the things that any pop singer does to promote a record - tours, disc-jockey interviews. But before each appearance, she tips off the cops, timing the call so that they arrive too late to catch Bobby but in plenty of time to allow...
DIED. Lou Walters, 81, father of TV newswoman Barbara Walters and a nightclub impresario who founded New York's famed Latin Quarter in 1942; of a heart attack; in Miami. Impish and softspoken, the London-born Walters made and spent millions on his lavish supper clubs in Boston, New York and Miami. His cavalcade of performers included Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Milton Berle and Mae West. A hit-and-miss Broadway producer, Walters went bankrupt in 1966 when his deals started to sour. In his glory days, his celebrity circle surrounded Daughter Barbara, who was never awed by stars...