Word: messe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ranks of his army is giving Uganda President Idi Amin Dada a headache. "Soldiers who drink their heads off" and "fatten beyond efficiency" should be tossed out of the service, Big Daddy declared at a parade. The 300-lb. field marshal then adjourned to the officers' mess, where he quaffed his favorite pick-me-up - a cold Coke...
...misgovernment, terrorism from the left and right, inflation that runs at 20% to 30% a month, despair and cynicism among the large and seemingly helpless bourgeoisie. How this highly favored land, with its 10 ft. of topsoil and 25 million homogeneous people of European descent, achieved such a colossal mess defies understanding. For the past six weeks the word has been that a coup could come any day, with the army taking over from the pathetic Isabel Peron, but there is only modest hope that this would make matters noticeably better...
...females. "There's no question about it," says Hayes. "This will be a Dick and Jane society until people recognize that women have the ability and responsibility to do the job. Right now there is an alienation against men--a feeling that they have made such a mess, why not give women a try. I'm glad to have the opportunity to do so. But it's also a great responsibility. If I mess up, I'll discourage women from running for elective office...
INFLATION. Reagan stresses that inflation was caused by excessive Government spending and can be cured only by balancing the federal budget. Says he: "The main cause of this mess is not business or labor but Government-engineered expansion and pre-emption of the nation's money." Reagan would apply the same "cut, squeeze and trim" policy to the federal budget that he boasts of having used in California. He views Ford's call for a $28 billion reduction in next year's budget as not going far enough. Says he: "It has a little...
...running, he said, to save the great American middle class-"the steel," as he put it, that holds the country together -from the excesses of liberals and Big Government. "You have the chance to take back this country from the ultraliberals, who have brought us to this mess...