Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to make and that he made so well when he occupied this home and served in the Oval Office. He came to lead this country in a time of crisis and strain. He brought the capability and attitude and knowledge and experience to heal our wounds. The entire nation is indebted to him. He is a man who is beloved and appreciated, and no one appreciates him more than I do." As for Betty, Jimmy called her "probably the most popular person in the country" and applauded her for her "courage and complete candor." Given the former First Lady...
...Carter was rejecting his critics' "inordinate fear of Communism" and ridiculing those who thought it imperative to react "every time [Leonid] Brezhnev sneezes." What eventually brought the President to the point of taking a different line was the latest crisis in Africa, this one in the huge copper-rich nation of Zaïre, once known as the Belgian Congo. There, a force of 1,900 French and Belgian paratroops, assisted by 18 U.S. jet transports, had just routed another invasion of Zaire's Shaba region (formerly Katanga province) by secessionists based in Angola...
After 25 years of autocratic and often oppressive rule, during which he sought to make his feudal nation a modern society, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi began taking tentative steps toward political liberalization in 1976. He reined in Iran's notorious security police agency, SAVAK, eased censorship, and encouraged more open political debate. The reforms stilled some criticism by the country's intellectuals and student dissidents. But the changes also gave new life to opponents of the regime who now pose one of the gravest threats to the Shah's rule in the past 15 years. This year...
...incident inflamed Shi'ite feelings as never before. In an interview last week in his spartan house in Qum, Sharietmadari told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn: "In the eyes of the nation, this incident is enough to cause a revolution in Iran. [The authorities] stopped cables being sent to me, but still the people came to me asking for the order to make a revolution. I advised them to remain quiet. But an attack on a Shi'ite leader will never be forgotten by the people." The roots of the recent trouble, charged Sharietmadari, lay in "many illegal actions...
...liberal causes. To nearly everyone's surprise, Mondale delivered a toughly worded speech accusing the Kremlin of mounting "a continuing buildup of unprecedented proportions in Europe." In addition, he attacked the Soviets for deploying the SS-20 missile. Though the Vice President made it plain that "no nation can be asked to reduce its defenses below the threat it faces," he did make one substantive proposal to the disarmament assembly. This was an offer to provide supersophisticated U.S.-built electronic monitoring systems for surveillance of arms and policing any disarmament agreements. Mondale declared the U.S. would consider foreign requests...