Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Better to lose than give anything to the Communists." Taking a contrary position, the Socialist Party's left wing, which had criticized Mitterrand for not making more concessions to the Communists, refused last week to endorse a Socialist resolution condemning Marchais for "helping the right and postponing the hour of change...
...midweek, a special seven-hour Cabinet meeting drew up a set of stiff new antiterrorist measures, including life imprisonment for murder committed in the course of a kidnaping. The Cabinet also gave police wider power in interrogation and arrests, and relaxed restrictions on police wiretappings and searches. Suspects could be detained for 24 hours just for verification of their identity, and police could carry out preliminary interrogations without the presence of an attorney...
Young was in Africa on an eleventh-hour mission to try to persuade all of Rhodesia's nationalist factions to sit down for one last try at a comprehensive peace agreement. The Administration fears that if the Patriotic Front is excluded from any majority-rule agreement, the fighting will engulf neighboring countries as well and create an opening for Soviet, Cuban and South African involvement...
Physical attacks are now rare. Still, the Patriarch and his parishioners have suffered continual harassment. Last May, when 150 youths broke into the courtyard of the Patriarch's residence to shout Greeks-go-home slogans, it took local police half an hour to answer calls for help. Greeks tell of job discrimination, unjustified evictions, expropriation of property, telephone threats and demands for "protection" money. Few would remain if the law allowed them to leave with their wealth. Says one: "All we have is tied up in the business. We have sent our daughter to university in Athens...
...Need Is Cash, a frantic spoof of Beatlemania, is 90 minutes long and has about three genuine laughs. By the prevailing standards of network comedy specials, like Mary Tyler Moore's recent hour on CBS, three laughs are nothing to scoff at. But this show promised so much more. The producer is Lome Michaels, the guiding spirit of NBC's feisty Saturday Night Live. The writer and co-director (with Gary Weis) is Eric Idle, of Monty Python's Flying Circus. The show's cast includes Mick and Bianca Jagger, George Harrison, Paul Simon and four...