Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That blunt comment by one of black Africa's most respected statesmen reflects a widespread conviction that Uganda's President Idi Amin Dada is the most grotesque national leader in power anywhere today. His credentials as bully and buffoon go back well before Entebbe. The nonstop reign of terror that the massive (6 ft. 4 in., 280 Ibs.) former Ugandan heavyweight boxing champion and army sergeant major has unleashed since he seized power more than five years ago is thought to have cost the lives of at least 50,000 and perhaps as many as 200,000 Ugandans...
...caused testiness among Japan's trading partners, who do not like the idea of buying so much more from Japan than they are selling there. Political pressures are mounting for countermeasures. One of them could well be an increase in the exchange value of the yen to blunt the competitive edge of Japanese exports, a subject that doubtless was raised discreetly at the economic talks in Puerto Rico. Prime Minister Miki so far has argued that the situation is temporary and should redress itself as imports increase along with the domestic recovery...
...vehement author who modestly (or prudently) signed himself only "an Englishman"? TIME has learned that he is Thomas Paine, 39, a blunt, quick, florid immigrant, lately editor of the successful Pennsylvania Magazine. Just two years ago he resided in England and called himself "Pain." And pain has been his lot. He is a failed tax official, a failed tobacconist, a failed husband, and a frequent failure at the humble trade to which he was apprenticed?that of corsetmaker. His second wife paid him £ 35 as part of the agreement by which he left her house (she is reported...
Recently, oil company executives were summoned to Washington to discuss the great pipeline snafu. Interior officials are blunt about the cause. As one told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, "Somebody cheated. It's a big mess." Beyond the 28 welds known to be defective, Interior officials are concerned that another 1,750 might fall short of federal standards for the Arctic, where winter temperatures can drop...
Packed Houses. The blunt juxtaposition of these joyful and agonizing images created a furor in France, where wartime collaboration with the Germans is a sensitive and often inflammatory topic. Although Let's Sing was playing in eight packed movie houses in Paris last month, the distributor was intimidated into withdrawing the film after only a nine-day showing. The reason: five masked men, styling themselves "The Revolutionary Commandos of the Christian West," trashed one of the movie houses, because they found the film "offensive to the memory of the dead." While the movie's director, former Journalist Andr...