Word: nationalizes
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Delegates representing the Metro Boston Association of the United Church of Christ voted yesterday to endorse the nation-wide boycott of Nestle Corporation products by a margin...
...country's economic troubles have worsened as the Vietnamese drive to develop lags, and the preliminary goals of its five-year plan are not being met. In an attempt to attract foreign investment, Vietnam now permits full foreign ownership of certain kinds of firms, the first socialist nation to do so. It has also begun discussing with U.S companies the exploitation of its offshore oil. The Vietnamese need for normal diplomatic ties with the U.S. became acute when four tropical storms hit in one week, flooding the Mekong Delta rice fields. The floods destroyed as much as 80 per cent...
...State Department official was content to say that Vietnam "was their problem now." In seeing Vietnam only as a semi-satellite nation of the Soviet Union, U.S. diplomats repeat, in an updated, streamlined, fully modern form, the same mistake of seeing Vietnam as a pawn of the Superpowers that got the U.S. involved in the war in the first place. During the war the U.S. sought to "save" the South to "contain" China. Now the whole region is seen only as a playpen for the client nations of the two Communist superpowers. The legitimate bilateral concerns that...
...bring to life this week's cover story on American farming, ten photographers crisscrossed the nation for upwards of a month. Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin and his assistants then sifted through the harvest of hundreds of rolls of film, eventually culling 80 or so photos for consideration. Finally, after a number of lengthy viewings, TIME'S editors selected the color and black-and-white pictures that accompany the text. Drapkin, who became our picture editor last July, has been chasing down the right pictures for TIME for 28 years. Says he: "I look for the added dimension...
...long-awaited Stage II of his campaign to slow the inflation that has reached an annual rate of 10%, his manner and delivery befitted the solemnity of his subject. Seated at his Oval Office desk and reading from a prompter, the President vowed to try "to arouse our nation to join me" in the long-range fight...