Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ethiopians, who are also righting a rebellion in the northern province of Eritrea, receive massive military aid from the Soviet Union. Until recently, Moscow also held Somalia in the iron grip of its friendship; but then it made the mistake of trying to expand its influence in the Horn of Africa by extending aid to both Somalia and Ethiopia, even though the two were ancient enemies. The volatile Somalis were enraged at the Russians' perfidy and stepped up their support for the Ogaden rebels. Meanwhile, the Soviets have reportedly supplied Ethiopia with MiG-21s and MiG-23s, heavy artillery...
...monthly earned in such critically labor-short industries as mining and engineering. Mining jobs are available to immigrants who can produce proof of having worked only 200 shaft hours. Such alien adventurers are often as undesirable as redneck mercenaries. Says one supervisor at a Rhodesian iron mine: "It's easy work. The niggers dig all the holes. You just stand over them...
...Administration pledge to enforce antidumping laws has momentarily lowered the protectionist fever that had been mounting in the U.S. and the rest of the industrialized world (TIME, Oct. 17). Speer, who as head of the American Iron and Steel Institute is the industry's spokesman, said he did not recommend to Carter a so-called orderly marketing agreement, under which the Administration in effect would negotiate with other countries quotas on foreign steel to be shipped into the U.S. An OMA has been much talked about as a temporary balm for steel; similar agreements already restrict imports of shoes...
...heroin are made with gold. The issue of drugs--their medical use as well as their recreational abuse--is destined to figure prominently in Humes's life for some time to come, even if its significance to Humes may one day take the form of a jail cell's iron bars...
...fields and the cannery; no businesses have shut down. Many people are taking cold showers or heating water in pans. They are cooking with firewood and butane and on hot plates, though some complain that tortillas do not taste as good cooked on electric skillets as they do on iron ones heated by gas. Civic organizations are sponoring free cookouts for people who cannot fend for themselves. But when cold weather arrives, Crystal City will be in more serious trouble, because most of its homes are heated by natural gas. "Deregulation leads to rapacious attacks on the consumer," protests Mayor...