Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles Chamber of Commerce claims to have found jobs for 4,000 employable Wattsians, but even so, the community is worse off than ever. Unemployment still runs close to 30% ; many residents are out of work because none of the chain stores destroyed last year have been rebuilt; insurance rates for some Watts businesses have quintupled. As evidence of the risk, Sol Goldman, one merchant who did rebuild his burned-out clothing store, saw it ransacked again last week. With 1,000 newcomers a week arriving in Los Angeles, Mayor Yorty complained, "The city just doesn't have...
...Czar Nicholas' caustic calumny.* Rumania today is indubitably a state, defiantly a nation, and quite proud to admit the Czar's final point about professionalism. Moreover, it was Rumania that in many ways set the pace in the quiet repudiation of the Czar's successors-a chain of events that has subtly altered the nature of European Communism...
Ceausescu did not inherit his predecessor's taste for luxury, dresses modestly, has no penchant for publicity; there are no photographs of him in Bucharest's streets. He keeps his private life so quiet that no one is sure where he lives. Dej had a chain of villas-one in Sinaia, one in Predeal, another in Mamaia, and one replete with private movie theater, a television screen that covered a wall, electronic door openers and infra-red radiators. Hard-working and humorless, clever but cautious, Ceausescu is infra-Red all by himself...
...victory. The winner: José Joaquin Trejos, a 49-year-old university professor who edged out Daniel Oduber, 44, the candidate of the ruling National Liberation Party, by a mere 4,200 votes. For Costa Rica, which has no army, the election was only one more in a long chain of peaceful choices at the ballot box; only twice in this century has a Costa Rican President taken power by force. Backed by a coalition of small parties led by three former Presidents, Trejos drew first blood when he charged the Oduber crowd with "growing socialism," then uneasily held still...
Clearly Wilson is not about to abandon Britain's vital military interests in India, Malaysia, and East Africa. The Singapore base is the key to the defense of Malaysia against the hostile Indonesian government. Indian Ocean islands form a chain of British outposts from Australia to Africa...