Word: ernment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defaulting on his many reform promises. But what are the Republicans' longer-range prospects? There is surely a conservative strain in the country, but it is not easily exploited. The older "social" conservatism that was a reaction against radicals and the counterculture is fading. Economic conservatism-limited Gov- ernment spending to avoid inflation, no social programs that would cost middle-income people too much money-remains powerful. But against this must be weighed such general and even global factors as higher energy costs and the slowing of growth in industrial societies, which conservative economists (or liberals for that matter...
Late last week, however. President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan's gov ernment appeared to be getting ready to prepare its people for the truth: the East is lost. An official spokesman admitted for the first time that the Pakistani air force was no longer operating in the East. Pakistani forces were "handicapped in the face of a superior enemy war machine," he said, and were outnumbered six to one by the Indians in terms of men and materiel?a superiority that seemed slightly exaggerated...
...Thailand's 3,000,000 Chinese-nearly 10% of the total population-though they had given no signs of restiveness. "We do not know for certain which ideology they prefer," he said. His real wrath, however, was directed at Parliament, some of whose members-from the gov ernment's own party-had threatened to block the military budget unless the Cabinet doubled their $50,000 annual allowances for vote-winning projects in their provinces. At a jammed press conference, Premier Thanom also complained bitterly that some opposition members had called him and Praphas "whoremasters" and "sons of bitches...