Word: lanning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what it could to make life for Allende uncomfortable, mostly through financial pressure on institutions like the World Bank. In August 1971, as a result of U.S. complaints that debt-laden Chile was a poor credit risk, the Export-Import Bank refused to make a $21 million loan to Lan-Chile airline to enable it to buy three Boeing jets, even though the airline had a perfect repayment record. U.S. exports to Chile overall declined 50% during Allende's three years...
Despite the significance of the elections, there was a curious lack of excitement last week on the hustings. The pro-Socialist Paris weekly Nouvel Observateur commented on how different was the West German election last fall that returned Chancellor Willy Brandt to power. "Over there one felt the élan in the air. One felt that the entire population was intensely concerned with the choice before them...
...been flown in by BOAC. Director Michael Rudman has elicited ensemble acting from this group that rates close to perfect. As for the Long Wharfs artistic director Arvin Brown, he knows viscerally what is good in drama, and season after season he presents it with honesty, professionalism and élan vital. Lincoln Center should beg, borrow or skyjack...
Last week the striking professional organizations were joined by pilots of LAN-Chile, the national airline. Although many workers were still out, there were signs that the strike-which one leader admitted was designed "to turn the clock back to Sept. 4, 1970," the date of Allende's election-had begun to run out of steam. Faced with mounting economic losses, many shopkeepers have unshuttered their stores. Taxis and buses are running again. The government commandeered 1,500 trucks from striking truck operators and pro-government workers have managed to keep food supplies flowing at a tolerable...
...natural drift toward realism. Repeatedly, whenever Mao sensed that the bureaucrats seemed to be taking over, he forced a return to basic revolutionary principles, often at chaotic cost to the country. He skirmished with intellectuals, with army professionals who thought that modern weapons were more important than revolutionary élan, with economic planners who thought the Great Leap Forward to instant industrialization was dangerous nonsense (which...