Word: breakup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation was hopeless, that's simply not true." The guessing in Brussels was that De Gaulle, furious at the way his bluff had been called, was simply raising the ante. As for the threat to the Common Market, no people in Europe would lose more from the breakup than France's farmers. It was hard to believe that even De Gaulle would risk such a blow to their pocket-books-particularly in the very week that he chose to set the next national election. He has until...
Chou's only consolation was that, two days after he left, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya announced that the East African shilling, established when the countries were under British rule, will be abandoned, with the end of the three-nation Common Market expected to follow. Prime instigator of the breakup was Tanzania, which has had its own currency printed for more than a year, and which wants to embargo imports from Kenya and so end the unfavorable trade balance it has traditionally had with its more highly developed neighbor. In order to do so, Tanzania apparently plans to import...
...election, there was precious little brotherhood, and Nigeria's model democracy lay in a shambles of violence, poll rigging, boycotting and threats. Any Nigerian who still felt like hailing his own dear native land would have to be quick about it: Nigeria was perilously close to a political breakup. "If Nigeria must disintegrate, then in the name of God, let the operation be short and painless," mourned President Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe in a nationwide radio broadcast, calling on politicians to "summon a round-table conference to decide how our national assets should be divided." Continued Zik: "Should the politicians...
...undoing began in 1944 with the rise of Dictator Juan Perón, who promised his lower-class descamisados (shirtless ones) steak on every plate and decreed meat prices as low as 6? a Ib. When the landowners opposed him, Per¶n ordered prohibitive land taxes, forcing the breakup of many ranches, decreed 60% wage boosts for workers, lured away cow hands by promising still higher wages in newly established industries. The most far-reaching legislation of all was an inheritance law that provided that each heir must get an equal share of the land, thus assuring the eventual...
...interlude between Senator Goldwater's acceptance speech and the formal end of the convention. Huntley said: "Senator Keating of New York seems to be leading the entire New York delegation in departing from the convention hall." CBS, at the same time, was accurately reporting the uneventful and orderly breakup of the crowd. Back on NBC, David Brinkley went on: "Three-fourths of the New York delegation has walked out." Outside the hall, Sander Vanocur then explained that Keating may have been miffed by Goldwater's line about " 'excess being no vice' "-misquoting Goldwater and misrepresenting Keating...