Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remember the last year for the death of a great man, Salvador Allende Gossens. Allende was not the only person who died when Chile's upper classes decided that democracy couldn't extend to working people. But because Allende devoted his life to the oppressed, because he tried to see that the undernourished children of the slums of Santiago would have milk to drink, he stands for all the Chilean junta's victims. For more than three years, Chile held out a beacon of hope to the rest of the world. It seemed to prove that people could take power...
...President Franklin D. Roosevelt to finance American trade with the Soviet Union, which the U.S. had just recognized, the bank was soon authorized by Congress to grant credits to other countries so that they could buy more U.S. goods and services. By using its $20 billion lending authority to extend credit to countries and companies on which commercial banks would not take a risk, Ex-lm has helped expand U.S. exports. It facilitated a record $10.5 billion sales last year and continued as a rare moneymaker among federal agencies. In fiscal 1973 it collected $140 million in interest and paid...
...Henry Kissinger considered what a nightmare he has created? Soon Russian ships will have easier access through the reopened Suez Canal to threaten Egypt and oil-producing Persian Gulf nations and extend Soviet influence on India. Could it be the Russians permitted Kissinger to negotiate the Middle East settlement because it will be to their strategic advantage...
...that had total 1973 sales of almost $5 billion; Lockheed Chairman Daniel J. Haughton, 62, would step down to vice chairman. Other terms, some still subject to revision: major banks are being asked to convert $275 million in loans to Lockheed into preferred stock in the company and to extend $375 million in additional credit to Lockheed at an initial fire-sale interest rate of 4%. Most troublesome is the condition that airlines will have to convert options on 45 Lockheed TriStar jetliners to firm orders by Nov. 30-one that Textron stipulated must be met before it will finally...
...information, it is very difficult for a man to think of me in any other way than as a therapist or teacher," says Los Angeles' Beverly Engel. Explains L.A.'s Sylvia Kars: "We work with dysfunctional clients in a slow, well-constructed program of therapy that may extend over many months...