Word: exportation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...round up those vital 13 votes, Ecevit will initially devote most of his energies to domestic matters. His first priorities, he said, would be restoring law-and-order and patching up the ailing economy. He intends to push for wage restraints, less generous commodity subsidies and increased export production. As for his law-and-order promises, Ecevit raised a few eyebrows by saying that he planned to legalize Turkey's small Communist Party (perhaps 2,000 members) by introducing legislation to repeal penal-code provisions that outlaw "class struggle." He also promised to seek a political amnesty, "since...
...that tie them closer and closer to Israel. Nearly 40,000 West Bankers now commute to jobs in Israel-at wages one-fifth lower than comparable Israeli pay. Israel has become the West Bank's principal trading partner and the West Bank is now Israel's principal export market after the U.S. Meanwhile, the Jewish settlements have built a thriving agribusiness ($27 million last year) in competition with Arab farmers...
...Allende. Said he: "There wasn't any question about his turning all the screws he possibly could in the direction of making Chile a Marxist state ... There wasn't any question that Chile was being used by some of Castro's agents as a base to export terrorism to Argentina, to Bolivia, to Brazil." When Frost responded that "Allende looks like a saint" compared with his U.S.-supported successor General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Nixon pointed at Frost and replied, "The right-wing dictatorship, if it is not exporting its revolution, if it is not interfering with...
...mineral, not bomb material." Only after complicated reprocessing can it be used to make nuclear weapons. It is believed that Israel completed such a reprocessing facility in 1969, and used it to produce a limited number of atomic bombs (TIME, April 12, 1976). The Carter Administration halted all U.S. exports of uranium-including yellowcake-last February, pending a review of U.S. export policies...
...British auto giant (1976 sales: $4.9 billion) had to seek government assistance to keep it going; in 1975 the British government spent millions to buy 95% of the company's stock and rescue it from bankruptcy. Also like the American firm, British Leyland depends heavily on its export business. The Daily Mail charged that the firm has been "paying bribes and conspiring to defraud foreign governments on a massive scale in a desperate effort to win overseas orders...