Word: nationalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Party to a decisive victory over James Callaghan's Labor Party. The Tories won a solid majority of 43 seats in the 635-member House of Commons,* and Thatcher thereby became not only the first woman to head a British government but the first to lead a major Western nation...
Downing Street was packed with well-wishers and photographers when Thatcher arrived. Expressing delight and excitement over her victory, Britain's "Iron Lady" made a conciliatory statement clearly addressed to a nation poised uneasily for change: "I would like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi, which I think are particularly apt at the moment: 'Where there is discord, may we bring harmony; where there is doubt, may we bring faith; where there is despair, may we bring hope.' Now that the election is over, may we get together and strive to serve and strengthen the country...
...attempts at neutrality have worked reasonably well, but at quite a price. The growing warfare has caused Botswana to create its own 2,000-man defense force; the $25 million start-up cost is a heavy burden for a nation whose total population is a mere 780,000. Last year, in the most serious incident to date, a band of Rhodesian government commandos opened fire on a Botswana army convoy and killed 15 recruits; they were the first Botswanan soldiers ever to die in an African war. The incident set off a wave of anger throughout the country. Last month...
More than a month after the nation's worst nuclear accident, at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor, the lessons and the consequences continued to be explored. Items...
Pulling into a service station is beginning to seem like entering a combat zone. With more and more of the nation's 171,000 gas stations closing on weekends, shortening hours during the week, and cutting sales to $5 per customer to stretch supplies, frazzled and angry drivers are starting to boil over...