Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take a onetime national hero, J. Edgar Hoover [Dec. 22], and after he is dead, you dig him up and bury him in a different grave...
...another show of independence, the Yugoslav Communists have joined with the renegade parties of Rumania and Italy to try to stall or even prevent Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's grand scheme for a European Communist Party Conference (TIME, Dec. 8). The Yugoslavs are also quietly exploring the possibility of buying fighter planes and radar and anti-aircraft defense systems from the U.S., in order to make Yugoslavia less dependent on the U.S.S.R. for maintenance of its Soviet-manufactured arsenal...
...kinds of stores shared in the splurge. Among department stores, Federated, the nation's largest department-store chain, figured that its sales ran 10% to 11% ahead of last year's Christmas season. Bloomingdale's, its showpiece division (TIME cover, Dec. 1), posted a 20% gain. Rich's Inc. in Atlanta lifted sales 25% above the 1974 Christmas season and Detroit's J.L. Hudson Co. gained perhaps 10% over even 1973, the banner year for Christmas sales...
Even in stores that cater to a less well-heeled clientele, retailers discovered that big-ticket items such as furs (TIME, Dec. 29) and electronic digital watches were selling briskly. Consumers, it seemed, were interested in high-quality goods and were less inclined than they once were to hunt for bargains. This year's most popular items included sportswear, fashion accessories and cosmetics, along with newfangled small appliances like peanut-butter makers and electric hot-dog grillers and such voguish gimmicks as mood rings and "pet rocks." Only "intimate apparel" clearly fell shy of merchants' expectations...
...Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), which is being supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba. Angola became officially independent in November, and the M.P.L.A., which already controlled Cabinda, took over the government in Luanda, and presumably the $116 million. Gulf was due to pay another $95 million on Dec. 31, and a further $30 million in mid-January. Meanwhile, the CIA had already spent or authorized the spending of $33 million to aid UNITA, M.P.L.A.'s anti-Communist rival (Congress, fearful of a new Viet Nam, cut off the aid last month...