Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bluntly demanding that the Christians make a final choice between Israel and the Arab states. Chamoun's reply: "We choose the Israelis." At that point Assad decided to cripple the militias by Oct. 28, when the legal mandate given to the peace-keeping force by the 21-nation Arab league expires...
Vatican sources later let it be known that the document was a gloomy report on the state-of-the-church in a certain nation that could only have shocked John Paul. Besides, earlier on the day of his death, a Cardinal living in Rome had apparently rebuffed John Paul by refusing to accept appointment as the new Pope's successor as Patriarch of Venice. Such reports suggested that John Paul may quite literally have been shocked to death. Other Vatican sources say that John Paul was overwhelmed by the complexity of the Vatican Curia and that the resulting strain...
During the mad, magnificent peak travel season of '78, commercial flying finally became a mass transit business. Drawn by all the bargain fares, hordes of vacationers-retired couples, hirsute backpackers, whole families loaded down with bikes, fold-up baby strollers and other paraphernalia -swarmed into the nation's airports and almost overnight cured the airlines' lingering problem of too many empty seats. While it was a boon to the industry, whose planes have been setting records in passenger loadings (63% of capacity) and earnings (expected to be about $1 billion this year), the summer of the discounts...
Understandably, people are confused about the oil situation. While the President continues to try to get his stalled energy program through Congress, and the cost of imported oil-which now supplies 42% of U.S. needs, vs. 35% in 1973-continues to increase the nation's balance of payments deficit, critics like Ralph Nader scoff that "the world is drowning in oil." Indeed, the experts themselves are increasingly divided into two camps...
Because they flood the U.S. with everything from Sony TVs to nimble Kawasaki cycles and buy so little in return, the Japanese alone account for 40% of the nation's appalling trade deficit, which this year will rocket to a record $33 billion. In response to repeated American pleas for easier access to markets in the land of Hitachi and Datsun, the Japanese reply reproachfully: "But we are ready and eager to buy your goods. It is your fault for making no effort to sell to us." Last week a group of 100 U.S. businessmen, headed by Texas Instruments...