Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alarmed by the new tide of refugees, U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance last month called on the U.N. General Assembly to convene a conference on the entire question, a meeting now scheduled for Geneva in December. Even before that, the U.S. Congress will hold hearings on the refugees' plight and the possibility of higher U.S. quotas...
...Shah last week repeated his pledge to hold free elections in the near future and announced the release of another 477 political prisoners; in the past three months, 1,903 have been freed. However, two members of the International League for Human Rights, an independent organization affiliated with the United Nations, completed a fact-finding mission to Iran and reported that thousands of political prisoners were still held in Iranian jails...
...code-named Operation Galaxia after the café in which it was hatched, involved five officers in the paramilitary Civil Guard, the National Police and the army. Although details were sketchy, the plans apparently called for sympathetic members of the police to besiege Moncloa Palace, the seat of government, hold Suárez hostage and install their own people in power. The target date: Nov. 17, the day King Juan Carlos was scheduled to leave for a two-week tour of Latin America...
...shift of emphasis in the education system away from the humanities to technical training in new industries. "Our industry must manufacture goods that others are not yet capable of marketing and will not be able to produce in the next ten years," says Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The French hold the same view. "To get out of this bind," explains Industry Minister André Giraud, "we must resort to innovation, manufacturing goods that others don't produce or don't produce as well...
This year the government was forced to reduce the growth of spending and hold down spiraling wages. The Shah's austerity plan, mixed in with the rising expectations and rising prices, produced an economic Molotov cocktail. Government workers, their salaries ravaged by inflation unofficially estimated at more than 50% last year, went on strike. They were soon followed by 67,000 workers in the oilfields and employees in the post office, national airline, customs, telephone and steel companies and power stations...