Word: important
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bushes to grab their victim as she pulled her Mercedes into the driveway of the Quinonez home in the wealthy Miami suburb of Coral Gables. They then drove her to the hideaway in Washington. Calling from telephone booths in Miami and Washington, they negotiated with her husband, Export-Import Dealer Roberto Quinonez Meza, for a ransom of $1.5 million. Disobeying the kidnapers' orders, Quinonez had notified the FBI the first day of the abduction and had taken calls from the kidnapers in the FBI's Miami field office. By wiretapping the calls, the bureau was able...
...person. Westerners get a kick out of tours of the Puszta region, where they feel at home on the range watching Hungarian cowboys rounding up cattle. With $20 billion owed Western banks, Yugoslavia is desperate to woo foreign vacationers. The government is even spending $6 million to import Western newspapers for tourists' consumption during the summer. Westerners can get a 10% discount on all goods and services. When it comes to such amenities as air conditioning, ice cubes and even a cup of coffee, Yugoslavia still has a long way to go. One measure of the country...
...Ethiopia are totally dependent on emergency supplies. In India, where crops throughout 75% of the land have been ruined by a dry spell that in one state has lasted five years, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has had to spend $600 million in precious foreign-exchange reserves for food imports this year alone. Indonesia, which finally achieved self-sufficiency in rice last year, will need to import 2 million tons of rice this year at a cost of $700 million. Zimbabwe, which enjoys so regular a crop surplus that it exported food to twelve African nations in 1981-82, is this...
Even as South Africa has been drained of $1 billion in foreign exchange, the consequences of drought are rippling out to its neighbors. The country has traditionally exported up to a million tons of corn each year to other African nations. This year, however, South Africa will have to import corn from the U.S., Argentina and Taiwan...
...Imelda perplexed compatriots in May by reportedly pressing the government into phasing out its $320 million U.S. food-assistance program. Citing her husband's ideal of "self-reliance through self-help," the First Lady declared: "There's no reason why the Philippines, which produces enough food, should import from or depend on foreign sources for its food supplies." Among those contesting such logic was Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila. Said he: "At present the full impact of the drought has not been felt, principally because the National Food Authority has been drawing on its stockpiles...