Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acre airport itself, authorities have to provide special antisabotage protection for jet fuel and other supplies transported to Narita from the outside. Then there is an expansion plan calling for construction of two runways to supplement the one now in use-requiring the purchase of still more private farm land...
...Beginning in 1967, when the project got under way, there have been 56 major riots and demonstrations, five deaths, 8,100 injuries and 1,900 arrests. The first protests occurred when a group of farmers holding acreage needed for the airport refused to sell and the government confiscated their land. That highhandedness, though achieved through legal channels, caused a storm of protest and quickly brought the youthful rebels to the farmers' cause. As air pollution, noise and other environmental issues acquired clout in the 1970s, Narita became the ritual target of militants with almost any quality-of-life complaint...
Last year 18.6 million tourists from abroad came to the land of Kojak and Huckleberry Finn, and the total is expected to top 20 million in 1978. Though waiters and cab drivers complain that they are not the world's best tippers, the foreign visitors will spend more than ever -nearly $9 billion, or $450 per person. Americans abroad still outspend them by almost $2 billion, but the gap is narrowing rapidly. Most important, foreign tourism is creating jobs in the service industries, which employ many blacks and Hispanic Americans...
...labor organizer, attained political power and preached nationalism while flaunting cutaways and a yellow Rolls-Royce. When Britain's colonial hold eased in 1967, Bradshaw was voted into the first of three terms as Prime Minister and, sensing opposition to his posh lifestyle, decelerated to khakis and a Land Rover...
...release a large probe and then three small ones. The bus and separated probes will continue their journey until they plunge into the Venusian atmosphere. Packed with instruments, they will all begin to take readings of atmospheric temperatures, density, composition and distribution as they descend. None is expected to land intact...