Word: intendancy
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...Administration's worries about South Africa's nuclear capacity. In 1977 U.S. and Soviet aerial reconnaissance photos provided evidence that the South Africans were preparing to test a nuclear device in the Kalahari Desert. Despite Pretoria's assurances that "it does not have and does not intend to develop nuclear explosives," President Carter declared at the time that the U.S. would continue "to monitor very closely" South Africa's nuclear development...
...major parties will be allowed a total of 50 minutes each throughout the campaign for party broadcasts. Still, Labor delights in poking fun at the glossy publicity campaign mounted by the Tories and their trendy London advertising firm, Saatchi & Saatchi Garland-Compton Ltd. Says Callaghan: "I don't intend to end this campaign packaged like cornflakes. I shall continue to be myself." Margaret Thatcher, apparently, would rather be Prime Minister...
...said he was waiting to see if the Library of Congress and other East Asian libraries switch to Pinyin before deciding whether the Yenching Library should convert. "We also intend to talk to faculty and students. If the faculty very much wants Pinyin, I suppose we'll definitely have to switch," Wu said...
...least one week ahead of any other state's. That should take care of Maine's threats to schedule a primary on Feb. 24, 1980, the same day as New Hampshire's. "We aren't first in anything else," says Tom Ferriter of Concord. "We intend to remain first in this...
...Shah is not likely to appear. Since late January, he and Empress Farah have been guests of Morocco's King Hassan II at a heavily guarded palace outside Rabat. Iran's new rulers evidently intend the trial to establish the Shah as not a political exile but a criminal fugitive. That could enable the regime to seize the Pahlavi family's foreign financial holdings and discourage other states from giving refuge to the Shah. Iran's Foreign Minister Karim Sanjabi has warned that any country that grants asylum to the Shah "under any pretext" can expect...