Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gandhi keeps her promise to lift the emergency soon, her "preemptive strike" against her opponents may be rather quickly forgotten-if not forgiven. Theoretically, she will need parliamentary approval to extend her extraordinary powers beyond two months-something that would not be difficult since her Congress Party holds 355 of the 516 seats in Parliament. The question, though, is whether the people of India, who have considerable pride in their nation's democratic traditions, would accept a new political system that would allow her to keep so much power in her own hands...
...Government will put more than $18 billion into the consumers' pockets from May through December. Last week Ford said that he might ask for a continuation of those tax cuts into next year if the recovery does not proceed smartly. Even if it does, Congress is likely to extend the tax cuts through 1976, and perhaps beyond...
Still, there is much room for improvement. Only 2% of Southern officeholders are black, and 2.5 million eligible blacks remain unregistered. Less than half the eligible Spanish-surnamed Americans in the Southwest are signed up at the polls. Last week, the House voted to extend the act another ten years and expand its provisions. Literacy tests would be banned nationwide; Texas and the parts of states with large Spanish-speaking populations would fall under the law, as would all of Alaska, many of whose natives speak no English; Asians in Hawaii and American Indians would be protected. The House bill...
Time for Land. Although Sadat insisted once more last week that peace in the Middle East depended upon Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Arab territories, Egyptian diplomats indicated that they were in a mood to exchange more time for more land. In other words, Cairo was willing to extend the mandate of the peace-keeping United Nations Emergency Force in Sinai to the extent that Israel was willing to surrender chunks of the Sinai. That "time for land" formula appeared to be equally acceptable to Israel. Jerusalem's approach to Sinai negotiations, after all, has become "a little...
Donald C. Moulton, assistant vice president for community affairs, said yesterday the University asks the traffic bureau and police department to be tolerant on the day of commencement, but he said "if they extend that to all week it's very much appreciated...