Word: holding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blacks fleeing the fighting were pouring into Salisbury at the rate of 400 a day. This refugee's family lives in a world of 6 sq. ft. next to the depot. Mango crates hold their few plates and pots and double as furniture. Dusty black rubber sheeting covers the ground by day and at night serves as roof...
Fearing violence, Yazdi quickly ordered the release of Taleghani's relatives, but the militiamen refused to obey either his command or the instructions of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan. Not until the following morning were the prisoners, who had been kicked and beaten, released. Taleghani, who had pledged to hold Qarazi until the arrests had been explained to his satisfaction, then freed the komiteh member. Qarazi was arrested on the spot at Yazdi's order...
While the new regime struggled to take hold, the grim details of just how badly one of Africa's relatively prosperous countries had fared under Amin's chaotic rule began to appear. The Ugandan economy had all but collapsed. Factories were closed, agricultural production had virtually stopped, and there was no hard currency to buy such essential imports as fuel...
While the rhetoric soared, no member of Callaghan's Cabinet was running harder than David Owen, the young (40) Foreign Secretary who was a practicing physician before entering politics. His southern Africa policy, though closely attuned to the U.S.'s, has won him enemies in Britain. Owen does not hold a safe seat. He will lose his Plymouth constituency if only 3.2% of the vote swings to the Conservatives. Last week TIME Correspondent Art White got a close look at the Foreign Secretary's ups and downs as he tried to win the home front. Reports White...
Even many Administration insiders recognize that their anti-inflation policy is not working. Admitted a top policymaker: "We cannot go on expecting the wage and price guidelines to hold." Since President Carter has ruled out mandatory controls, the only other policy choice, in the view of White House advisers, is to raise interest rates. Leaks to the press and other pressures on Miller to tighten money became so obvious before the Open Market Committee meeting that Carter sent notes to Blumenthal and Schultze telling them to stop it. The President did not necessarily oppose the Fed's raising interest rates...