Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shagari's pragmatism could spell success for Nigeria's reborn democracy, if he can curb the excesses of his party followers, who finished strongly in races for the federal senate and state assemblies. But it might also spell disaster if he permits the country to fall back into the fractiousness of the past. Says a Western diplomat in Lagos: "A lot of people have their fingers crossed on this...
This inaction has allowed some voices of hate to win a wider hearing than they might have had otherwise. For instance, the National Front, as the only political group actually encouraging violence against minorities, has achieved notoriety beyond its membership of 20,000 or so with scare tactics and street demonstrations. But both the Tories and Labor have carefully refrained from playing reckless politics with race. The Labor Party at least has correctly diagnosed the nature of Britain's racial ills even if it failed to push through any forceful program while in office. Says Merlyn Rees, Labor...
...Thatcher was helped by the race issue during her campaign. "The moment a minority threatens to become a big one," she said on TV early last year, "people get frightened. The British character has done so much for democracy, for law, that if there is any fear that it might be swamped, people are going to react and be rather hostile to those coming in." After that speech, Thatcher's standing in the polls shot up 11%, because she seemed to be granting respectability to anti-immigrant sentiment...
Though the new code frowns on promiscuity, it also concedes the difficulty of continence. "When you try to excessively control sex, you might end up touching off an explosion," it explains. Masturbation, the handbook says, is "the safest way" to relieve sexual tensions and certainly preferable to dalliance with prostitutes. Reason: "You might even be blackmailed into marrying such a girl...
...educator himself needs educating," wrote that famous critic of capitalist society, Karl Marx. But the comment might apply equally well to Communist Hungary, where a recently published poll has revealed some shocking historical misconceptions in the minds of Marx's progeny. Conducted in 1976-77 by an official government youth agency, the poll quizzed a representative sampling of 814 Communist youth leaders ages 14 through 30. The results, published in last month's issue of Ifju Kommunist (Young Communist), show an almost counterrevolutionary ignorance about Communist history...