Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS EXODUS is part of a much wider American flight from the country, one that reflects, after 45 years of unwavering support for the corrupt Somoza family dynasty, the ambivalence which now characterizes Washington's attitude towards the aging general and his oppressive policies...
...State Department, have been in good faith. America's long history of pro-Somoza interventions and aid has led the larger part of the opposition to conclude that the U.S. should not be trusted this time, either. Fearing the Americans seek an equally conservative but less controversial successor for General Somoza--"Somozaism without Somoza"--many opposition splinter groups have recently left the formerly comprehensive Broad Opposition Front, which favors the negotiation (in hope of a plebescite) approach, to join the more radical Patriotic Front...
...Pedro Joaquin Chamorro. Chamorro was gunned down on his way to work in January 1978, and his assassination touched a spree of rioting and burning of buildings in the capital city of Managua. The first anniversary of his death two months ago also brought parades, demonstrations, and a renewed general strike...
...Cardiff. What prompted Labor's initiative was not a question of soul but of cold politics. Though the Nationalists had been campaigning for greater independence for years, they never won much attention until 1974, when the Scottish party won in Scotland a surprising 30% of the vote in general elections and took over eleven seats in Parliament. By then Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, had won three seats. So the minority Labor government, troubled by the nationalists' inroads on traditional Labor strongholds, decided to press for devolution...
...prices will go much higher than that if OPEC's prices also keep climbing. The run-up has already sparked fears that the entire cartel, which only last December announced a general 1979 increase of 14.5%, will soon declare yet another boost in order to keep from breaking up in a mad scramble after ever higher prices. As if to sanctify the money grab, OPEC headquarters in Vienna announced that individual price adjustments by members were perfectly all right "in light of their prevailing circumstances...