Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect, the Bantustans--the government also calls them "homelands"--keep organized black resistance to the government at a minimum by spreading blacks out across the country, and have created a cheap labor reserve force for South Africa's ever-expanding industrial sector. More than 70 per cent of South Africa's population are required to make a scattered 13 per cent of the total land area their permanent homes, and that 13 per cent is largely infertile and barren. South Africa's rich mineral deposits and its cities are all in white areas. African adults--both men and women--leave...
...drive to cut taxes in 1976 is be coming an irresistible force that not even a presidential veto could stop. At minimum, Congressmen facing re-election campaigns at a time when unemployment will still be high are certain to extend the $8 billion reduction in taxes on corporate and personal income enacted for 1975. All 20 members of Congress's Joint Economic Committee-liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans alike-have endorsed the idea; a tax-reform bill is due out of the House Ways and Means Committee by Oct. 28. Last week even President Ford apparently climbed aboard...
...commit himself to a broad program for the redistribution of wealth. He doesn't buy the theory that George McGovern would have won more votes in 1972 if he had stuck to his proposals to tax 50% of all inherited wealth over $500,000 and to guarantee a minimum income to every American citizen. "My friends in the trade unions," he says, "told me that the reaction of their members had been, 'You mean if I win the lottery, that bastard is gonna take it all away...
...Communist countries of Eastern Europe as well as the Soviet Union keep their leaders' public appearances to a minimum-and at a safe removal from uncontrolled crowds. When leaders do mix with the masses, they are surrounded by obviously armed bodyguards. The carefully screened crowds are usually made up of selected party and government workers. But assassination attempts are not unknown. In January 1969 a Soviet army lieutenant disguised as a policeman opened fire on Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev as he was being driven to the Kremlin. Brezhnev escaped unharmed, and the would-be assassin was declared deranged...
Noise Today. "It will be a long strike," predicted Producer Adela Holzer. The union and the League are locked in a classic impasse over money v. productivity. The union is demanding a 50% raise to be prorated over the next three years on the minimum weekly salary of $290, for a seven-performance, five-day week. The League has countered with a minimum of $400 for an eight-performance, six-day week, provided that the musicians give up bonuses for such extras as performing onstage and playing more than one instrument. Says Schoenfeld: "It's incredible! They even want...