Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bloody Clash. Indira then warned her countrymen that military victories do not come cheap. She was right. The costs and dislocations of war have combined with drought to produce near famine, water shortages, power failures, price increases, labor strife, unemployment and street crime. Power failures caused by drought and labor sabotage of power plants have left New Delhi, the nation's capital, blacked out or browned out three times in as many months and many factories unable to operate. Unemployment is hard to pinpoint statistically in a land of perpetual underemployment (estimated at 24%). The jobless are now numbered...
Increasingly ubiquitous, they are even freer spending than the Americans were in their heyday. At Dunhill, the sedate tobacconist in London, three winsome Japanese girls wait on the busloads of their countrymen who visit every day and walk away with the costliest pipes. (Americans usually buy the cheapest.) At the Pathek-Philippe factory in Geneva, Japanese queue up to buy watches for as much as $5,000 apiece...
...bold white against a blue background with the legend VOTE YES FOR DEMOCRACY. IT IS NOW IN YOUR HANDS. Having quelled last May's naval revolt against his junta's six-year rule and deposed exiled King Constantine, Greek Strongman George Papadopoulos offered his countrymen last Sunday a chance to vote-but not much of a choice...
Died. Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 91, Prime Minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957 and a symbol of national pride and achievement; in Quebec. A man of patrician and benevolent manner who was often referred to as "Uncle Louis" by his countrymen, St. Laurent reluctantly left a successful Quebec law practice in 1941 to become Minister of Justice in the wartime Liberal government of Mackenzie King. As his country's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, St. Laurent oversaw a period of unprecedented growth and expansion. Canada's gross national product -sparked by American investment-nearly doubled, Newfoundland became...
Residents whose income is tied to the tourist trade fear that they will be shut out by the new owners. Some Honolulu tourist officials complain that the Japanese are developing a "closed system" in which their countrymen fly J.A.L., use Japanese-owned hotels, buses, shops and restaurants, and Japanese tour guides. "American interests do not see a dollar's worth of business," says one official. The Japanese investors, however, deny this charge...