Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chou Enlai, for a quarter century Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and the able administrator of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's policies, was dead of cancer at the age of 77. A memorial service, with no foreign dignitaries present, was announced for Jan...
Even by Ulster standards, it was a crime of surpassing brutality. Early Monday evening a red minibus was routinely carrying twelve workers home from their jobs at the John Compton Ltd. textile factory in violence-ridden South Armagh (TIME, Jan. 12). Suddenly, just outside the village of Whitecross, the bus was stopped by a group of masked, heavily armed men. The workers and their driver were lined up against the vehicle, and the lone Roman Catholic among them was sent away. The rest, all Protestants, were then gunned down in a withering hail of automatic fire. Ten died instantly...
Malpractice Fund. As in similar medical slowdowns elsewhere in the country, including a four-week walkout in northern California last spring, the doctors are protesting the skyrocketing cost of malpractice insurance that underwriters insist is made necessary by mounting jury awards. Effective Jan. 1, Travelers Insurance Co., which covers three-quarters of the area's doctors, hiked premiums by an average...
Gave In. In late September the Pontiff decided to solve two problems with one Jan Willebrands. The cardinal, already known as Paul's flying Dutchman, would take over as primate of Holland while commuting occasionally to his Vatican desk. Willebrands would have preferred to devote full time to the troubles back home, but when the Pope persisted he gave in. Said Willebrands last week: "A reasonable obedience is asked...
...goes into effect Jan. 1 as expected, TIME will continue to print in Canada, but without the present five to seven pages of Canadian news and with its 62-member Canadian staff cut by as much as 90%. TIME Canada has offered to reduce its advertising rates by half to offset the increased net costs to advertisers when the tax-law change takes effect. Canadian subscribers will be asked to pay a sharply higher subscription price to offset the expected loss in advertising revenues...