Word: nationalizes
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Fortunately, the discrimination faced by American women is not in any way analagous to the campaign of terror conducted by the South African government. Women in this nation are not systematically tortured, beaten, shot, nor deprived of the right to trial, vote, work, hold public office, marry out of their race, or live in the region of their choice...
GOLDA MEIR fascinated a world that for the most part believed that no woman in her seventies could effectively run the government of a major nation. But through her long and distinguished career, Meir proved the world wrong. When she died last week at the age of 80, still another courageous facet of her personality came to light: she had been receiving secret radiation therapy for lymphoma for the last 13 years...
...monetary policy is turning tighter in an effort to restrain credit and the money supply. To signal its intentions, the board controls the interest rate for Fed funds, which are reserves that banks lend each other. That rate has risen to a high 10%. In addition, the nation's basic money supply, or M.I, dropped $1.9 billion to $359.5 billion during the week ending...
...mayor of San Francisco; of bullet wounds, after allegedly being shot by a disgruntled former member of the city's board of supervisors who is also accused of shooting and killing Supervisor Harvey Milk, San Francisco's first acknowledged homosexual official; in his city hall office (see NATION...
DIED. Joseph Marie Trin Nhu Khue, 78, Viet Nam's only Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Hanoi; of a heart attack; in Hanoi, three days after his return from his visit to the Vatican for the last papal conclave. Named his nation's first bishop in 1950, Trin Nhu Khue elected to remain in his native Hanoi after North Viet Nam gained its independence in 1954. In favor of a modest rapprochement with the Communists but steadfast in his refusal to vote in their elections, he was imprisoned in 1959 for a year and barred thereafter from...