Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where are the snowplows of yesteryear? Back in 1956, the Nebraska town of Sidney (pop. 6,300) spent $50 to buy a used Civil Defense truck (1936 vintage), and put a plowing blade on it to clear the town airport of snow. Last fall, when City Manager Merle Strouse decided that the old plow had reached "the last of its days," he investigated new snowplows and found that they cost $25,000, more than twice the $9,800 that the town wanted to pay. He asked the Federal Aviation Administration to help out. The FAA decided that the town really...
...situation continues, the greater the danger of a coup from either the left or the extreme right. Says Adolfo Calero, a prominent conservative politician: "The conservatives want it known that in Nicaragua there are democratic forces that represent the great majority of the people who have placed themselves in civil opposition to this government." Adds Alfonso Robelo Callejas, a wealthy industrialist: "We feel more than ever the urgency to get rid of Somoza and the government because his presence provokes such [terrorist] actions...
...past year Premier Jamshid Amuzegar had made a valiant effort to restore the country's economy. He cut inflation from 31% to 8%, cracked down on wealthy tax dodgers, purged the civil service of crooks and incompetents. But the reforms came far too late, and the rioting only grew worse. Early last week the Shah replaced Amuzegar with Jaafar Sharif-Emami, 67, a former Premier who is himself known as a devout Muslim. The Shah's charge to his new Premier: mollify the mullahs...
...Islamic precepts of our country's constitution." Many members of the Western-educated elite were predictably appalled at the latest turn of events. "The Shah's concessions will only make the opposition demand more," complained one Iranian businessman. "Mark my words: we are headed for civil war." Fortunately it was much too early to tell how the Shi'ite Muslim majority would react to the Shah's about-face...
DIED. F. van Wyck Mason, 76, prolific and bestselling historical novelist (among his more than 60 books: Three Harbours, Stars on the Sea, Cutlass Empire); of a heart attack while swimming; near Southampton, Bermuda. A skilled storyteller especially interested in colonial and Civil War America, Mason embellished his complex plots with minute detail and romantic flourish. He also penned a popular series of tales of intrigue featuring Captain (later Major and Colonel) Hugh North, and during World War II served as chief military historian for Dwight Eisenhower's SHAEF command...