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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King is considered above politics. The task of governing his peculiar land of serenity and violence, of beauty and disorder, is in the hands of Premier Kriangsak Chomanan, 61. A retired army general who came to power in a 1977 army coup, Kriangsak has found it hard to manage a largely agricultural economy that is plagued by bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption. He has also had to give a great deal of his attention to the threat posed by war at Thailand's doorstep, and the persistence of Communist insurgency, especially in the south...
...Tsar Nicholas II. "Rasputin was a very simple person with very good ideas," said the exiled Russian writer, who is doing research at the Hoover Institution in Palo Alto, Calif. "He wanted equal rights for Jews, a separate peace with Germany in World War I and the redistribution of land to the peasants." Some historians will doubtless question Amalrik's contentions that the legendary monk was really as good as all that. Still, in the words of the Boney M. song that is sweeping Russia, Rasputin was obviously "a cat that was really gone...
...developments eventually would have occurred even if Carter had not introduced his new energy package. But his complex and costly program, provided it is ever enacted by Congress, will accelerate the trends by stimulating investment and spurring technological breakthroughs. Says Economist Arthur Okun: "If there is an Edwin [Polaroid] Land or a Hewlett or a Packard in the country with a bright idea for energy production, a big carrot is being held...
Another possibility is unconventional gas, which is the same as natural gas, but much harder to extract. It is found under the surface-in the Rocky Mountain region, in the shales of Appalachia, in huge underground caverns stretching below land and sea along the coastlines of Louisiana and east Texas, and in many coal seams all over the country. Because it is costly, the development of unconventional gas had been blocked until natural gas price controls were lifted last year. Now Carter anticipates production to reach the equivalent of 500,000 to 1 million...
...58th Street south of Tampa, Fla., where the houses thin out and the land turns to strawberry and tomato fields, lives Gary Berrien, 17, one of ten children of Ezell, a roofer, and Mildred, an organist at the nearby New Progress Missionary Baptist Church. Gary plays the organ for pay on Sunday at three churches in the neighborhood, but he has not found a full-time job since completing the twelfth grade at Hillsborough High School. He wanted to join the Army but decided against it when a recruiter asked for his high school diploma. Gary had to tell...