Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel can ship arms to our adversaries which are directly across the Red Sea from a nation that provides 10% of America's oil supply, why should there be any question about our selling F-15s, an essentially defensive weapon, to a more reliable ally, which is surrounded by radical leftist regimes in South Yemen, Ethiopia and Iraq...
Your article "Adieu Montreal" [May 8] concludes that the future state of Quebec, with its 6 million citizens, will be only a "small nation," and therefore some business managers will prefer to follow the departing Sun Life Assurance Co. to Toronto, the center of anglophone Canada. Once internationally recognized as a full-fledged nation, we will still be as large as Austria or Switzerland, and twice the size of Israel. Like those countries, all we ask for is your respect and noninterference...
...Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut. For dinner that night, he and his wife entertained Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Senators Frank Church and Ted Kennedy and Scotty Reston of the New York Times. Over duck à I'orange, the men had a free-flowing talk about the nation's foreign policies, including the newly announced plan to sell military aircraft in a package to Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, a matter already causing intense debate...
Vance was about to leave for Africa and Moscow, and Ribicoff that weekend flew out to Phoenix to make a speech. In his hotel room there, he watched CBS's Sunday program Face the Nation. Senator Howard Baker was the guest, and he suggested flexibility on the number of planes involved and the conditions of sale. Two days later, back in Washington, Ribicoff approached Baker on the Senate floor, privately...
...other hand, Qoboza said, many people believe corporations "can play a vital role in transforming that society." However, he added that outside of "a twinge of conscience here and there," foreign companies operating in South Africa have done nothing to improve the situation of the nation's blacks...