Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avoid Probate, Dacey...
...country's fight for independence from the Central African Federation, became Prime Minister in 1964, and has since ruled the impoverished, landlocked nation with autocratic firmness. He jails critics at will, assumes sweeping powers to restrict the movements and statements of anyone in the country. Just to avoid confusion, Banda has even decreed that no Malawi businesses can have a "president" as such; they must find another title. "If I am a dictator," Banda said last week, "it is because my people want me to be. I am a dictator of the people, by the people...
...they argue that he lacks moral discrimination. "A great talent," says Punch Editor Bernard Hollowood, "but he's too much concerned with nostrils, nipples and navels." Scarfe could reply that his critics are too cocksure of their own politics and resent his lack of dogma. "I try to avoid any political bias in my cartoons," says Scarfe, who does indeed heap abuse on every shade of opinion. "I'm neither for the right nor for the left. I simply must deride what I consider unjust...
...Spain's Roman Catholic hierarchy has issued a joint pastoral letter to the faithful. The 38-page letter, redefining the relations between church and state in the light of the Second Vatican Council, spoke out for political and economic freedom within Spain, but also urged Catholics to avoid politicking in the name of the church and asked for "moderation" in seeking reforms. It was unmistakably designed to calm down the turmoil that has led Vatican officials to speak openly about Spanish Catholicism being in a state of crisis...
Indeed not; and suggestions echoed around London last week that raising the bank rate alone might not be enough. Apart from devaluation, which the government is desperately determined to avoid, there are two possibilities for further action: a politically risky wage freeze and import controls. Clearly, Britain will need Draconian measures-or miracles...