Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mobutu and Zaïre, that would mean disaster. The copper and cobalt mines of Shaba are responsible for two-thirds of the nation's foreign exchange earnings, and Zaïre needs them to survive. Although the region was relatively calm last week, no one precluded the possibility of another rebel attack from across the border, or of a general uprising by a population suffering from severe poverty and the oppression of its country's own plundering army...
...There are problems within the alliance," declared Turkish Premier Bülent Ecevit, the honorary president of NATO. His audience consisted of the allied heads of government who gathered for a summit-conference dinner in the White House Rose Garden last week (see NATION). Indeed, there are problems, and none is more immediately troublesome to NATO strategists than the four-year-old rift between Ecevit's own country and neighboring Greece. Reflecting the ragged edge of the alliance's southeastern flank, NATO forces recently completed a maneuver code-named Dawn Patrol. Both Greek and Turkish warships participated?but never...
...Denver program, one of the nation's most advanced, teachers started from scratch and wrote a textbook with the help of the Colorado office of energy conservation. The course involves 390 students in six Jefferson County schools. Points are made mostly through class activities. A sample: "Catch the Sun," a lab experiment that measures the heating power of solar energy on a thermometer. A key exercise calls for students to record their household energy use?kilowatt-hours of electricity, cubic feet of natural gas?on special grid sheets. In this way they can compare their energy use with the much...
...high cost of eating. Not only does April's .9% rise in consumer prices mean that the economy is once again in double-digit inflation?11.4% on an annual basis ?but food prices are climbing more than twice as fast, 23.8%. The rise is turning the nation's supermarket shoppers into an army of walking wounded and making grossly naive the Administration's January prediction that food prices would go up by only 4% to 6% this year. Instead of acting as a brake on inflation, as policymakers had expected, food is one of the principal fuels...
...rising because cattlemen are not sending their animals to slaughter. During 1975, 1976 and 1977, slumping meat prices encouraged ranchers to cut the size of their herds, lest they become stuck with steers that could only be sold at a loss come market time. By this year, the nation's cattle stock had dropped to a seven-year low of 116 million head, and the scarcity began to force prices...