Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need to acquire modern technology and expertise. Still, the Japanese business community wonders how the Chinese will pay for their gigantic import program. Since the early 1970s, China has been making most of its major purchases from Japan on credit. Because Peking has inadequate foreign-currency reserves, the Japanese must either grant loans or buy Chinese oil. Both solutions present pitfalls for Japan. Peking has hinted it wants the type of cheap loans, repayable over 30 to 40 years at 2% to 4% interest, that Japan makes to developing countries as a form of foreign aid. The prospect of giving...
...question of the Shah's future role is one on which his opponents are divided. Many people in Iran would like to see him remain as a figurehead but removed from politics; others insist that his rule must end. One of the most vigorous advocates of the Shah's removal is Ayatullah Khomeini, the 76-year-old mullah who is now the undisputed spiritual and political leader of Iran's 32 million Shi'ite Muslims, who comprise 93% of the population. A longtime opponent of the Shah, Khomeini was exiled in 1963 following violent demonstrations against the Shah's land...
...changing to a constitutional monarchy: Everything represented by the Shah and his system must disappear from Iranian life. I am not the Shah's enemy. Our struggle is to convince him that his authority is finished. Already the pressure is cutting into his throat...
...President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the new Pope spoke of world issues and of the universality of faith. With an envoy of Lebanese Maronite Rite bishops, he presided over a lengthy audience and told reporters later: "A visit to Lebanon could be very useful. But above all we must find a solution. My heart is very troubled by Lebanon...
...long been liberal dogma that to eliminate crime, society must eliminate the causes: poverty and racial inequality. But even as the U.S. was pouring billions into social welfare programs, and systematically attacking discrimination, during the '60s and early '70s, violent crime was booming. Since 1960 the rate of robbery, murder and rape has almost tripled. Lately it has become fashionable to target the culprits, not the causes?simply to catch criminals and lock them...