Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somoza is easily the most hated man in Nicaragua. In conversations in all parts of the country, held in near-whispers because there are thought to be "orejas." National Guard cars," everywhere, his name is pronounced bitingly, with vengeance. The corpulent dictator is said to own almost everything and to...
The essential facts of the hunger crisis are, then, these: that in a world of definite resources population cannot be increased indefinitely, yet we have the capacity to feed adequately ten to 16 times the present population of the globe that the ability of the more developed nations to produce...
It was a ghastly symbol of the unending agony of Viet Nam. In a country seemingly fated for tragedy, even a basic humanitarian gesture had ended in disaster, the result of yet another failure of the American technology and know-how that a decade ago had been billed as the...
REFUGEE DISASTER. The country was awash with homeless people fleeing desperately from the Communist advance. Hundreds of thousands, exhausted and dispirited, arrived in areas where they hoped to get refuge only to find that North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops were about to take over. Communist forces in such coastal...
Carey describes the government that he took over as Nelson Rockefeller's "megastate," an expansive creature that could be fed only by an ever-expanding economy. Largely because of hard times, the New York State Urban Development Corp., an agency created at Rockefeller's urging, ran out of...