Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western Europe, most governments applauded the signing. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, no admirer of Jimmy Carter called it "an achievement of historic significance." But beneath the surface, Europeans worried about the treaty's consequences. The British feared that the treaty's vagueness over autonomy for the Palestinians could lead to an explosion within the Arab countries and seriously undermine moderate political forces there. The Common Market nations, which get 68% of their oil from the Middle East, gently tried to dissociate themselves from the treaty, fearing that open enthusiasm could make enemies among the Arab oil producers...
...Libyan backing for the Irish Republican Army. We regard Northern Ireland as under British colonization. The Irish struggle for independence is a just struggle. We don't consider the Irish fight for freedom to be terrorism...
...most important since 1945, when a massive Labor victory ushered in the welfare state. If the Tories win, as the polls now predict, Britain will gain not only its first woman Prime Minister, but a government whose resoundingly conservative views will run counter to the whole leftward drift of British politics since the end of World...
...soundtrack double album to that flick recently became available in import. The album raises the intriguing question of whether a defunct band can produce the best rock and roll of the year; the answer, despite the carping of the British press, is yes. The Great Rock and Roll Swindle gives us the most complete statement yet of the punk sensibility...
...symbiosis. Upon Rotten's departure, the remaining Sex Pistols ran into the problem of taste: Is this any good? How far do we go? It was a problem they were unequipped to handle. A song like "Friggin" in the Riggin'," a nautical round of masturbation and sodomy on a British man o'war which is sure to replace "Barnacle Bill the Sailor" on top of the fifth grade charts, has no business on this record. Part of the problem is the manifest influence of Malcolm MacLaren, the Sex Pistols' manager, who apparently drove Rotten from the band and tried...