Word: britain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sultanate of Oman put down a rebellion by the Dhofor rebels, or served with United Nations peacekeeping forces, Iran's military has not been tested in combat, but it is awesomely equipped. In the past two decades, Iran has bought $36 billion in weaponry, most of it from Britain and the U.S. The total includes 2,200 tanks, 400 jet fighters, nearly 30 naval vessels, as well as air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles. Iran, moreover, is one of the few nations in the world to have fleet of military hover craft. Although the latest crisis forced...
...quite amazed. In Britain, such a scene is virtually inconceivable. When you are raised in a system where health care is something to be taken entirely for granted it is hard to grasp that anyone, like this old man, need ever worry about having to pay for such services. Indeed a well-known British correspondent, trying to bring home this contrast, recently wrote an article that began: "If I could be rich, beautiful, young, but above all healthy, there is nowhere that I would rather live than New York...." This expresses a sentiment shared by many Europeans...
...commonest reaction among Americans to any mention of the British National Health Service (NHS) is that, together with the rest of the welfare state, it is responsible for Britain's post-war economic decline. Yet beyond this criticism, many Americans have little conception of what comprehensive national health services like those in Britain consist of, and cling to the conviction that socialized medicine is a bad thing. This tends to mean that they are willing to put up with a system that is costly, uneven, and in which the majority of the population are not even fully covered by health...
Attributing Britain's post-war economic difficulties to the introduction of NHS is too simple. We need to examine some of the far deeper structural problems concerned with questions such as the level of industrial investment in order to explain her declining economic fortunes, and that would take an article in itself. Furthermore, countries such as Germany have comprehensive health insurance, and are by no means in a weak state economically...
...than 20 million South African victims of apartheid. Generally, this whole flurry of diplomatic activity, trying to bring the South African government into an understanding over Namibia, is just playing into the hands of the apartheid regime--buying time, taking the heat off apartheid. I think the U.S. and Britain should just get right out of the scene. They should give Botha and company a deadline like next Tuesday and say, 'This is the end of the road. We're getting...