Word: claiming
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...commentary on our times that Arthur Burns, the conservative, grandfatherly economist of 73, has be come a national folk hero. Barbara Walters nags him for an interview. He twinkles, touches another match to one of his hundred or so pipes, and declines. International bankers claim, perhaps extravagantly, that his reappointment is needed to steady the stumbling dollar. American businessmen have raised him to near sainthood, even those who do not necessarily agree with all of Burns' tactics but want him to stay. Housewives, engineers and preachers write Burns that the nation needs him. He has become a soft-voiced...
...Coors, 61, and his brother Joseph, 60, a well-known backer of the John Birch Society and other right-wing causes. The union's allies are particularly upset by the firm's practice of using lie-detector tests to probe into the lives of job applicants, and claim that Coors discriminates against minorities...
...tear-shaped chunk of sand less than one mile long and 700 yards wide. Its flora consists of four coconut palms and some nondescript bushes that submerge whenever the sea turns rough. Nonetheless, Tromelin has become the focus of a heated political controversy. Three nations claim it: France, which currently controls it, Mauritius and Madagascar (formerly Malagasy). Their feud may have to be resolved by the International Court of Justice in The Hague...
France has claimed the island for 200 years (it is named for a chevalier who first set foot on Tromelin in 1776) and has maintained the weather service since 1953. Yet vigorous dissent to the French claim has been registered by Mauritius. 300 miles to the southeast. Prime Minister Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, 77, insists that Tromelin "is part and parcel of our territory, and always has been.'' In fact, Mauritius' claim -dates back only to 1959. nine years before the nation won independence from Britain. Last year, after learning that France intended to cultivate the Tromelin turtles...
...rival and more recent claim has been instituted by Madagascar, 260 miles to the west. Madagascar's President Didier Ratsiraka last month announced that his Marxist republic is the rightful owner not only of Tromelin but of three other small French islands: Europa, Juan de Nova and Glorieuses. It is said that Ratsiraka wants Tromelin in order to establish a Soviet base there. That seems unlikely: because of the coral reefs, large ships could never venture inshore, and Tromelin is so small that a large airplane would run out of island before it could brake to a stop...