Word: dangering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of Mexico's alarming birth rate, its population grows by 3.2% a year. It has more than doubled, to 65 million, in less than a generation. By the year 2000, Mexico is expected to have more than 100 million citizens. The danger for the U.S. is that the giant on its southern border will explode in social upheaval. Most of the unemployed Mexicans are landless peasants, and they face a cruel choice: scratch out a bare living at home, migrate to urban slums or sneak across the border for low-paying jobs...
...perilous for Americans; some have been attacked and two killed. Not only have Washington's close ties to the Shah been violently denounced by followers of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, but Radio Moscow's Farsi-language broadcasts have fueled anti-Americanism by accusing the U.S. of instigating "the dangers facing the Iranian people." Now for nine Americans in Iran, the danger is more deadly; they have been named as CIA agents in Counter-Spy magazine...
Malcolm Toon, the U.S. ambassador to Moscow, met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the Kremlin to indicate "our dismay and surprise" that the official Soviet media would act "in a way that could increase the danger to Americans in Iran," Carter said...
...represents the individual stations. There is wholesale duplication of effort, and far too big a percentage of the TV budget is spent on administration rather than on programming. The CPB, whose members are appointed by the President, is overly sensitive to prevailing political winds, moreover. There is always a danger that a determined President will try to influence public television for his own purposes, as Richard Nixon did when he packed the CPB with his political pals...
...wrenching political or social change in this century would indicate that his novels are in danger of going out of style...