Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into northern Zambia, landing at a missionary station and school a few miles from the Zaïre border. Here the transportation problem beset him too. The missionaries fed him and translated for him but balked at lending him a car: Spanish journalists the previous year had borrowed a local farmer's car, only to be arrested across the border in Zaïre and have the car destroyed. Consequently, Wood explored the nearby border roads to report on the strange victory march of the rebels in their victims' clothes, driving stolen cars, to the cheers of native...
Many residents rushed to their local assessor's office to find out what they will have to pay next December if Proposition 13 fails. There were some devastating jolts. One newcomer to West Hollywood paid $3,700 in 1977 on his two-bedroom, $120,000 house; this year he could pay more than $7,000. Another new Californian was taxed $5,500 on his three-bedroom, $165,000 Beverly Hills house in 1975; his tax bill could be $14,600 this year. The outcry by aroused Californians over such hikes has given a last-minute surge...
...property, commercial as well as residential, to 1% of its market value. If a house has not been sold since 1976, the cash value would be whatever appeared on the public records in that year-another rollback from current sales values. The proposition would limit any tax raise by local governments to 2% per year and require any new statewide taxes to be approved by a two-thirds vote of the legislature...
...battle, politicians seeking election elsewhere are watching nervously. Virtually to a man, and woman, they are preaching fiscal restraint this year. But as the candidates plunge into primary campaigns, their fates will be decided by the voters on the basis of a complex of intraparty feuds, personality clashes and local issues. Among the liveliest races...
...style. Mobutu's designs on Angola have never been secret: he wanted to acquire the oil-rich enclave of Cabinda--which is separated from Angola by the Congo River--along with whatever else he could grab. When the Portuguese agreed to leave Angola, Zairean and South African troops joined local groups to fight the Movimento Popular de Liberacion d'Angola (MPLA), which had established itself as the best-organized and most popular nationalist movement. In this "Second War of Independence," (the first was against Portugal), Zairean troops invaded Angola in support of the FNLA, headed by Mobutu's brother...