Word: intendancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE MUST HAVE been times between the Dita Beard escapade and Wounded Knee--stories in which Whitten played a key role--when he wearily concluded that they knew no limits. And those must have been the times when The Alchemist was written. Whitten does not seriously intend to reveal the power-broking behind the scenes--he only wants to tell a story beside which real government seems reasonable. The Alchemist is a diversion, and no thinly-disguised characters have set Washington astir...
...unlikely however that Parliament will approve such measures in their present form. The Labour leadership has proposed it only under intense pressure from the party's militant wing. Some party leaders no doubt intend to use the wealth tax as an election ploy--a voluntary wage-control program concealed as an attack on social injustice. Others may be committed to a genuinely new "social contract" between the unions and the government...
...most combustible item on the agenda, however, is "the Palestinian question." It was put there by a group of Arab and nonaligned nations that intend to debate the case of Palestinian Arabs not as refugees, as the U.N. has always considered them, but as a dispossessed nation. In effect, this would provide a status they have never achieved in 26 years of Middle East turmoil...
...pathetic little marches in downtown Saigon, in which they were outnumbered 10 to 1 by police. They have now formed an organization called the Forces for National Reconciliation. The Buddhists carefully refrained from labeling the "force" a political party in order to avoid legal harassment, but they clearly intend to exert renewed political influence. Says Senator Vu Van Mau, leader of a Buddhist group in the Thieu-dominated Senate: "I think in a democracy-and Thieu claims that this is a democracy-that he must take account of the opinion of the people. He must explain himself...
...statement said MIT "does not intend to add to the value" of its pay raise offer to the SEIU workers, but since the offer includes 3 per cent raises in pensions and other benefits, MIT could conceivably meet the union's pay demands while cutting back its benefit offer...