Word: enough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even for the Memorial Day weekend, when gasoline supplies will be particularly short. Half a million people, traveling by cars, pickup trucks and garishly decorated vans-more than 200,000 vehicles in all -are expected at the Indianapolis 500 auto race. What will happen if there is not enough gas to get them home? Replied State Police Major Forest Cooper: "We are very concerned...
Understandably enough, Louis makes no mention of Moscow's difficulties with its own ethnic minorities, which constitute 53% of the Soviet Union's population, as compared with a total 6% minority population in China. Yet it was a revolt of the Soviets' restive minorities that provided a central drama a decade ago in the prophecy by Soviet Dissident Andrei Amalrik, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? After serving a term of exile in Siberia, Amalrik was allowed to emigrate to the West...
Mostly, Egypt has been banking on the $3 billion in aid it expects from the U.S., West Germany, Japan and the World Bank. Cairo officials insist that their country can remain solvent enough to maintain the huge food subsidies that are essential to Egypt's internal stability. "There is no chance we will face food riots like those of January 1977," a government economist said confidently. But with 30% inflation, a population explosion (2.58% annual birthrate) and limited foreign exchange, Egypt could still suffer severe economic damage from an intensified or even prolonged boycott...
...member Ismaili sect 22 years ago, the Aga Khan was asked whether he intended to maintain his grandfather's famous racing stables. "I'm not much for sport," replied the prince, then 20. "I don't know what I'll do with the horses." Quickly enough the young heir developed a passionate interest in what he described as "a game of chess with nature"-the breeding of horses -and today he reigns supreme over the French horse-racing establishment. His sport has led him into a bitter dispute over a multimillion-dollar string of Thoroughbreds...
...Sure enough, when Murty tried to move his stock out of France, the shipment was blocked by Jean Romanet, head of the Jockey Club, and by Henri Blanc, of the state-owned National Stud. For reasons still murky, they refused to sign export licenses, claiming that they were acting under orders from the Agriculture Ministry. But ministry officials denied any knowledge of the affair, says Murty. At about this time the National Stud received a donation from the Aga Khan of three stallions, worth at least $90,000. Says Murty: "I believe the Aga Khan gave the stallions...