Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leader in recent Italian history has been able to demonstrate the mastery of persuasiva that Premier Giulio Andreotti routinely employs. Having in a few weeks time derailed a crippling strike, guarded his nation's access to continued oil shipments and committed his monetary policy to the new European plan. Andreotti is being sternly tested once again. Already under attack from within his parliamentary coalition and even from fellow Christian Democrats, he will soon face a crucial vote on his new economic program. If he loses, Italy's fragile coalition government, which relies on the Communists for support, could...
Whoever follows will lead a fairly healthy nation, but he will confront serious problems as well. Boumedienne used oil revenues and international loans to build a modern society and revive the flagging Arab culture he had come from. A socialist and revolutionary ideologue who turned to Moscow for military assistance, the pragmatic Boumedienne also looked west for markets and technology. The U.S. has become Algeria's principal trading partner, buying oil and, more important, natural gas, while providing factories for consumer goods and training to teach Algerians to run the new facilities...
Striking workers paralyzed key industries: power, communications, transport and, the heart of the nation's wealth, oil production. At the same time, the ravaging mobs concentrated their destructive efforts on the banks, which Islamic extremists see as symbols of Western decadence and leftists view as outposts of capitalistic exploitation. On Nov. 5 alone, 400 banks were damaged or destroyed by rioting. In 1978, 1,400 of the nation's 7,000 banks have been attacked...
Quaint as that query may sound to an American, the impending shutdown of the venerable Times and Sunday Times of London is no footling affair to an Englishman. The gloom among Britain's Establishment could be as thick as suet pudding if the Times (circ. 293,000)-the nation's newspaper of record and the favorite forum of impassioned letter writers -suspends publication this week, as now seems likely. Equally wretched will be the 1.4 million readers who look to the Sunday Times for its weekly compendium of news coverage and lively analysis...
...time it seemed as if the biennial general conference of the 146-nation United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris would be remembered for adopting Soviet-style curbs on press freedom. But last week, applauding delegates passed by acclamation a U.S.-supported compromise, lifting at least temporarily a threat that has been hanging over the West since...