Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earlier this year, Smith made a long overdue offer to begin sharing political power with the blacks immediately and to hold free elections, based on universal adult suffrage, by Dec. 31. This proposal was accepted by a number of Rhodesia's most prominent moderate black nationalists, who had long opposed Smith's regime. The popular Bishop Abel Muzorewa, for example, sees Smith's plan as a chance to establish black rule peacefully, although there is mounting evidence that this view is much too optimistic (see WORLD). Smith's plan has been rejected by the leaders of the radical Patriotic Front...
...turn, lawmakers are at fault in their dealings with lobbyists. Many of them hold annual fund-raising cocktail parties in Washington and pressure the lobbyists to buy tickets at $50 to $500 each. Congressional stars like Howard Baker and Warren Magnuson can easily raise $50,000 through these affairs. Democrat Lud Ashley, chairman of the House Energy Committee, held a bash in July and netted about $30,000. Lesser lawmakers barely break even, but can't seem to shake the habit of staging such parties anyway. "It's one of the seamy sides left in lobbying," protests...
Another point of conflict was the proposed construction of a new, 200-seat B10 European Airbus, a mainly Franco-German project that is aimed ambitiously at loosening the U.S. hold on the world's commercial aircraft market. To enhance the Airbus' chances, the French and Germans have tried to persuade the British to join in its development, with a standing offer to build the wings and other key parts...
Soares had warned that the Socialists will not participate in any new coalition, thereby blocking the possibilities for any other multiparty government. Eanes' most likely option is to appoint an interim "presidential" government to hold office until scheduled national elections in 1980. If he does that, the leading contender for the Premier's job will be Colonel Mário Firmino Miguel, a political independent who served as Soares' Defense Minister. Firmino Miguel almost became Premier in 1974, when he was the choice of then President António de Spínola, but was forced aside by leftist army officers who eventually...
...album is full of gruff courage and sadness, but never despair. "Darkness is about dealing with despair," Springsteen says, "about people trying to hold on to their dignity in the middle of a hurricane. You look around, you see people on the street dug in. You know they're already six feet under, people with nothin' to lose and full of poison. I try to write about the other choice they...