Word: expressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...card field, Diner's Club is introducing the "Double-Card." A subscriber gets two cards: one for personal use, another for business expenses. The monthly bill separately lists the items charged on each. Through Double-Card, Diner's (3.2 million cardholders) hopes to close in on American Express (9 million...
...meantime, officials express some concern about the southern border-the relatively soft underbelly of U.S. air defense. In 1971 a group of Cubans, using a low-flying, Soviet-built transport, dropped in unannounced at New Orleans airport for a sugar conference; in 1972 a Cuban defector flew his air force plane undetected to Miami. The U.S. keeps its intelligence eyes focused mainly on northern approaches where, it is assumed, there is the greatest threat of an attack...
...foreign students express anything but scorn for the Shah and condemnation of his U.S. supporters. Says Phyllis Bennis, a California attorney representing 165 Iranian students who were arrested in a Los Angeles demonstration last week: "Iran has been made a prime market in the Middle East. The Shah is a tool of the U.S. corporations." Others charge that the Shah's modernization program is largely a myth. "People are fighting with the regime because the Shah never did make land reforms," insists Farhad Ehya, a spokesman for the Iranian Student Organization at U.C.L.A. "Whatever he did, he took back...
...acting without the consent of his partners on the Executive Council, notably Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, who had joined the interim government last March. Nkomo was acting without the support of his colleague, Mugabe. And Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda was hosting the meeting without the express approval of his fellow "frontline" Presidents (Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Samora Machel of Mozambique, Agostinho Neto of Angola and Seretse Khama of Botswana), with whom he has been jointly seeking a Rhodesian settlement...
Silences is in part a book of ifs. If I had had those years to observe and write and express what was in me... If the factory laborer with latent artistic talent didn't have to toil ceaselessly... If writers didn't have to shape their work to the demands of those who can pay them...