Word: chronical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important ally in its dispute with China-one that could be the springboard for a Soviet treaty system throughout Asia. It is too soon to tell whether a pattern is about to freeze into place-India and Russia lined up against Pakistan, China and the U.S. -but such a chronic confrontation could be dangerous...
...death brought an abrupt end to Castro's hopes of local revolutions and catalyzed a revision of domestic policies. Yet, as in 1961 when Castro turned communist, he only partially rethought development problems. Chronic food shortages, bad distribution and grave imbalance between supply and demand due to the island's "socialist inflation" all pressed Castro in 1968 to decide upon a new era of belt tightening which after five years would bring the island out of underdevelopment. Karol remained pessimistic of this plan, pointing out that Fidel envisioned a quick political solution ignoring the real problem of changing social relationships...
...history's most malevolent dictators. He was Francois Duvalier, who liked to be called Papa Doc. For 14 years he had held the wretchedly poor black republic of Haiti in a spell of fear. Now the spell was broken. At 64, weakened by heart attacks and chronic diabetes. Papa Doc died. His son. roly-poly Jean-Claude. 19, whom Duvalier had designated as his successor last January, was immediately sworn in as President...
...Cold Turkey clucks along, it does prove fitfully amusing. Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding make their film debut, delightfully impersonating a number of TV newsmen, including "Paul Hardly," and their CBS de resistance, "Walter Chronic." But these benign entertainers are essentially aural comedians, and their limitations underline the show's. Many films have been written specifically for TV. Cold Turkey seems the first to have been made for radio...
Government officials continued to deny that Duvalier was near death. For years he has been plagued by diabetes and chronic heart trouble. A few months ago, Duvalier passed out in the midst of a private audience with a Western diplomat...