Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should reject the treaty," he says flatly. "We should add $4 billion or $5 billion to the defense budget." Nitze believes that accepting SALT II as it now stands could be "the point of no return" for the U.S., a point after which the nation would be locked into trends that would assure the Soviets nuclear superiority...
Stevenson last week told TIME: "The nation was never exalted to high levels of endeavor by reorganization plans and zero-based budgeting. In fact, the strong Presidents may have been least occupied by matters of management. A great President has an agenda for the nation...
Turkish-American relations have decidedly improved since the lifting of the U.S. arms embargo, which had deeply embittered a longtime ally. The continued solidity and loyalty of this large democratic nation bordering on the Soviet Union is important to the West. Turkey provides NATO with airfields, supply and ammunition depots, communication and surveillance stations to monitor Soviet air and naval activities, missile and nuclear-weapons tests...
...threatens to weaken further Viet Nam's already seriously strained resources. In addition to the 130,000 troops Hanoi has sent into Cambodia, it has 30,000 in Laos; because 160,000 skilled Laotians have fled the country, Hanoi's troops now have to help run the nation. Meanwhile, Viet Nam's own economy is collapsing. Exports have dropped sharply, and food production is way down; last year the grain crop was a record 4.3 million tons below what was needed to feed Viet Nam's 51 million people. Unemployment is so serious that even...
DIED. Edvard Kardelj, 69, Yugoslav Communist ideologist and heir apparent to President Tito; of cancer; in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. When his nation was expelled from the Soviet-led Cominform in 1948, Vice President Kardelj devised its new ideological foundation, granting greater freedom to local factories and party cells as well as pioneering a foreign policy of nonalignment. Until taken ill five years ago, the loyal official was widely expected to succeed Tito...