Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many already have, and that is the problem as the U.S. sees it. So far, seven Rio signators have ignored the treaty in order to maintain or establish diplomatic relations with Cuba, including, most recently, Venezuela and Colombia. Although the U.S. has no plans to soften soon its own stance on Cuba, it is accepting the inevitable. It now prefers that the OAS formally end the ban rather than doing it de facto...
...full 20 years. Originally built to house about 600 convicts, the mammoth, rust-red prison was requisitioned after World War II by the Allies for the sole purpose of locking up Speer and six other senior Nazi officials. To this day the U.S., Russia, Britain and France maintain a special commission (and a guard force of 25 to 30 men each) to run Spandau; its only inmate is Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, 81, serving a life sentence...
...school chief, Robert Alioto (no kin to Mayor Joseph Alioto), admits that he was not sorry to leave his old superintendent's job in Yonkers, N.Y., because there the president of the local teachers' union "has a strong dislike for me." Some shell-shocked superintendents maintain that true peace is possible only through retirement. After wrestling thanklessly with budget problems for two years, Alflorence Cheatham resigned as the Cambridge, Mass., superintendent last spring, citing poor health. Says he: "There is only so much you can take. I got worn out and quit. Now I'm reading four...
...likelihood of that abrupt jump is increasing because of a worsening deadlock between the White House and the Democratic Congress over what kind of controls, if any, to maintain. Last week President Ford sent Congress his long-awaited plan to phase out controls over a 30-month period. He hopes that the resulting rise in prices will greatly stimulate domestic oil output without hurting the economy. Congress is likely to turn down that plan; critics charge it would drain $45 billion in potential consumer purchasing power out of the economy over the next two years...
...advocate a system of allocated credit that would channel available capital into high priority projects, like energy development. The liberal argument is that capital is not so much in short supply as inefficiently used; for evidence, they point to the overbuilding of shopping centers and vacation condominiums. Conservatives, meanwhile, maintain that an allocation system is unworkable and would cripple the capitalist system-the jugular vein of which is the free movement of money. Moreover, they contend that the real need is for more investment. Among their proposals: lowering the capital gains tax and allowing companies to depreciate their plant...