Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pittsburgh voted 2 to 1 to relax pollution-control laws, hoping to open up new jobs in the beleaguered steel industry. And more than 3 million voters-a record number-came out in Ohio to repeal, 2 to 1, the state law allowing people to register to vote as late as Election Day itself. The main fear: last-minute registration would encourage fraud. Across the nation, Americans who went to the polls to choose local and state officials also voted on a wide variety of issues that until recently they had left up to their elected representatives to decide...
Dutch police had been watching the apartment building in Amsterdam's working-class Osdorp section for days. During the search for kidnaped Millionaire Maurits Caransa, who was seized late last month and released five days later, authorities discovered that two young West German terrorists were living at Baden Powell Road 217. Though the Germans were not wanted in the Caransa case, one was suspected of having a role in the murder of West German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the other of involvement in the bombing of a German regional courthouse...
...Having found their voice at last, the unfranchised blacks of urban South Africa cannot be expected to turn silent again as long as they have legitimate grievances. And their demands are bound to increase. Political and economic concessions by a Nationalist government will probably be too little and too late to satisfy these rising ambitions...
Further liberalization of the segregation laws is promised, although the concessions, as always, will come too late to satisfy rising black aspirations. Last month urban blacks were authorized to hold 42 more kinds of jobs than before?including those of auctioneer, druggist, chiropractor and boardinghouse keeper. Officially, pay scales for black and white workers are the same; in practice, blacks earn far less than whites who hold the same jobs. A fortnight ago the government announced its intention to modify slightly the hated pass laws; henceforth blacks will be allowed to carry "travel documents" rather than the present identity books...
...rebate proposal was dumped, Schultze has regained his influence. Says one Administration aide: "Charlie's forecasts of economic progress land on the President's desk at the top of the pile." Currently, Schultze is urging a new stimulus program to keep the economy from lowing down late next year...