Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plants-California's Rancho Seco and Duke Power's three Oconee reactors in South Carolina-out of 72 nuclear plants licensed to operate across the U.S., including five on the East Coast temporarily shut for earthquake safety studies. All together, nuclear reactors produce about 14% of the nation's electricity...
...Viet Nam War, the Communist forces crossed the Cambodian border and established a whole network of secret bases, which they relied on to shelter and resupply their troops. To attack these "sanctuaries," the U.S. bombed the Cambodian countryside, then launched an armored "incursion" into the once neutral nation. Now a book by William Shawcross, who covered the war for the Sunday Times of London from 1970 to 1972, challenges that U.S. policy and charges that it contributed to the Communist takeover...
During those five years of fighting, a once fertile and peaceful nation became a wasteland. The capital, Phnom-Penh, swelled from 600,000 to more than 2 million, as refugees from the countryside sought first to escape the intensive U.S. bombing and later the increasing terrorism of the Khmer Rouge. Where rice had formerly been exported, starvation became commonplace. Inflation soared. Yet through all the suffering, Shawcross notes, Washington continued to support the "bankrupt" and "corrupt" regime of Lon Nol because he was willing, if far from able, to go on fighting the Communists...
...small measure of what's on the nation's collective mind is the cause that celebrities choose to back. Last week in New York City, the glitterati got together to help buy bulletproof vests for the city's police. The vests are needed-in the past twelve months, six officers have been shot to death in the line of duty-but the financially strapped city claims it cannot afford them...
...military personnel in order to create "a brotherly atmosphere throughout society." As for the komitehs, said Bazargan: "I know that the majority have performed a great service to the revolution, but they have also taken the law into their hands and caused a sense of insecurity across the nation...