Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main concern of Americans polled continues to be the rate of inflation and the apparent inability of the Government to cope with it. Nearly two-thirds of those questioned placed inflation at the very top of their list of worries, while more traditional fears like crime in the streets dropped sharply. The state of general gloom seemed to be deepened by the people's belated realization that the nation's energy problems are genuine. Sixty-three percent said they now worry a lot about an energy shortage, indicating that Carter has perhaps convinced the nation of the severity of this...
What could be done? The Yankelovich survey showed that the public favors a variety of rather stringent measures to curb inflation. Half of those surveyed said mandatory price controls would help check inflation, even though popular opposition is usually considered one of the main reasons why controls haven't worked well in the past. Slightly more than half of the respondents said some sort of restriction on the use of credit cards would help, as would putting a ceiling on housing prices...
...program for Zimbabwe: It is based on scientific socialism. In general, a one-party state with built-in democratic mechanisms would be preferable to a two-party or multiparty system. Land, land, land, land has been the main source of grievance in the country. We have got to make land the people's property and distribute it. China did not wait, and Russia did not wait?they started as outright Marxist. We have got to develop ourselves along those lines. We don't have to hide anything...
Though Kampala, Uganda's capital, had fallen to a combined Tanzanian- Ugandan force two weeks ago, the main political prize continued to elude the new provisional government of President Yusufu Lule. Former President-for-Life Idi Amin Dada was still at large. He had been variously reported to have fled to Zaire, the Sudan or Iraq, as well as to several points around his own country. At week's end he was said to have been spotted in a village near the eastern Ugandan town of Mbale, traveling in a Land Rover full of radio equipment and accompanied...
...repression as well as on his public relations buffoonery. Kenyan police arrested Astles after he had crossed Lake Victoria by speedboat from Uganda. Astles once was close to Milton Obote, whom Amin ousted as President in 1971; in time he turned adviser to Amin and soon became a main architect of the dreaded State Research Bureau (SRB), the Gestapo-like organization that was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Ugandans murdered during Amin's rule...