Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...block level the municipal representatives are required to periodically convene assemblies and report to their constituency. Representatives are not exempted from their job responsibilities; they are full-time workers as well as part-time public servants. Elections are held without personal campaigning-candidates are allowed to post only a photo and a biography, Any person may run for office, but Party members are usually elected, because they are most often the best citizens, Arce asserted...
...South Africa all black organizations except those sponsored by the regime, and virtually all anti-apartheid organizations, black and white, have called for withdrawal of foreign investment from South Africa. They feel that the strategic and economic support transnations give the regime far outweigh the few jobs at starvation-level wages they provide blacks. In the words of the late Chief Albert J. Luthuli, President of the African National Congress of South Africa and Peace Prize winner...
Crown Prince Fahd and King Khalid forgave and apparently forgot after Sadat sent a high-level emissary to soothe their wounded feelings. The Saudis expressed full understanding of Sadat's objectives and made it clear that they are not opposed to a direct Arab-Israeli dialogue. The Saudis, however, also explained that they could not publicly support Egypt's move lest they weaken the broad range of contacts they have laboriously built up all across the Arab world. They now are in a position to influence such disparate and often inimical regimes as Marxist South Yemen and Somalia...
...most important issues, however, Vorster will stick to the course he has already set. In an interview last week with the Afrikaans magazine Huisgenoot, the Prime Minister insisted that there would be no concessions on political power-sharing with blacks on a national level. He will proceed with his plans for constitutional changes to establish separate "parliaments" for whites, mixed-blood coloreds, and Asians, and will continue to develop the tribal homelands. This week BophuthaTswana becomes the second of these homelands to attain "independence...
Explains Federal Civil Service Chief Franz Löschnak: "A title should describe precisely the level of employment of a civil servant and should be pronounceable, at the very least." Thus an Akademischer Oberrestaurator (restorer in a museum) will become a mere Oberkommissär, or first-class commissioner. A Polizeisanitätskommissar (police health commissioner) will be reduced to just plain Kommissär, while a Kellereiinspektor (inspector of state wine cellars) will henceforth be known only as an Amtsrat, or office counselor. In a curious bow to tradition, Austria's 100 Wirkliche Hofräte (real court...