Word: intendancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next month, Berlinguer and other Communist leaders intend to promulgate that message across the country, frequently in dramatic give-and-take dialogues with voters-another new campaign tactic (see box). For years to come, Italian politics will be profoundly shaped by the number of voters who believe them...
...Congo]. The thing that concerns us is the quantity of heavy sophisticated arms and equipment that the Russians and Cubans have amassed in that country. We cannot, in the face of that, be indifferent. [But] I really don't think the Russians and Cubans intend to repeat their Angola experience in other places in Africa. It would be a terrible error on their part. Africa is mature enough to resolve its own problems...
...Christian Democrats, it seemed, intend to fight the campaign principally on a theme of two-faced Communist promises. In the past, many Italians voted Communist as a safe but telling protest vote against the Christian Democrats, who have held power-with decreasing effectiveness-alone or in coalition ever since World War II. But this time, with the Communists now obviously strong enough to share power nationally, many of those protest voters are afraid to mark their ballots for the Communists once more, and the Christian Democrats intend to play on this fear...
...drubbing him in Florida and North Carolina. Henry Jackson was humiliated in Pennsylvania, where he had expected to sweep to victory with heavy union and political-machine support. At week's end he decided to drop out of the race. "I will remain a candidate and I do not intend to endorse any other candidate at this time," said Scoop to a group of supporters. "I am a realist. Simply stated, we are out of money." Asked to assess Carter's chances for the nomination, Jackson declared frankly: "He is an open-field runner at this time...
...raised corporate taxes. But the experience has not changed Iran's position as one of the leading price hawks in the OPEC cartel-quite the opposite. Though Iran made a tiny price cut on heavy crude last winter as a concession to the market, its planners fully intend to argue OPEC into raising prices again this year. How much? Hushang Ansary, Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, voices again the old idea of tying oil prices to an index of important imports: military hardware, capital goods and foodstuffs. Some of these, Ansary insists, "rose as much...