Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon last week a crew of Colombians began loading bales of unlabeled cargo into a four-engine DC-7 at Curaçao airport in the Dutch Antilles. That night the lumbering 22-year-old plane took off for what the crew said was a local test run to tune up its engines...
Next day the demonstrations began again and this time ended in fatal, fiery riots. Many marchers apparently had not yet heard the martial-law proclamation over Radio Iran or else they chose to defy it. Jaleh Square in downtown Tehran was packed with thousands of protesters. A local religious leader appealed to them to disperse. They refused. A cavalcade of motorcycles, followed by groups of women and young children, began to proceed toward squads of armed soldiers. After repeated warnings, the soldiers lobbed canisters of tear gas into the crowd, then shot into the air. As the throngs advanced...
...themselves whether David Taunton should stay on the bench. He is running for re-election against Robert Moore, a lawyer who filed a slander suit against Taunton on behalf of one of the men the judge charged with suspect land dealings. Moore has been drumming up support from local merchants who would like to see Taunton ousted. He has also invested $150 in a red-white-and-blue floodlighted billboard on the main highway to Tallahassee. The Robin Hood Judge, meanwhile, was hand-painting campaign posters with his wife and teen-age son back at-what else-his log cabin...
...every five office buildings. IBM enjoys a near monopoly in data processing, challenged only by Control Data. Even though embargoes prevent U.S. companies from selling South African manufactured goods in almost all black African markets, most of the firms are thriving on domestic sales alone. Says Dick Strain, the local head of Eli Lilly: "South Africa has the sophistication of a Western market and the development potential of a Third World country...
...influence more effectively to bring about change. Despite pronouncements about being committed to ending apartheid, too many U.S. companies engage merely in tokenism. For example, in none of the 60 plants visited by McWhirter was a copy of the Sullivan Code easily available to nonwhite employees. Many local managers have moved too shyly and slowly to remove the most reprehensible barriers of apartheid and to advance nonwhites. But home offices could order their subsidiaries to act more forcefully. That is precisely the solution advocated by Sullivan, who feels it is too soon to dismiss the creative possibilities of U.S. enterprise...