Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government of Mali has tentatively selected the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) to advise that northwest African nation on rural health services in a four-year, multimillion dollar project, one of the institute's largest ever...
...Praslin, recently appeared in a Managua newspaper. Its publication dramatizes the fact that revolution in Nicaragua, a country whose people have long been silent under the oppressive dictatorship of President Anastasio Somoza, is alive and flourishing. Freedom of the press is a relatively new development in this Central American nation of 2.5 million--opposition to the 42-year-old Somoza dynasty has only surfaced in print within the last year, in the wake of President Carter's proclamations about human rights...
Carter's only serious crime, then, is Optimism in the first degree. Despite his lust for Washington's power, he was an outsider in the true sense of the world. Oblivious to elitist protocol and disdainful of pork-barrel politics, he innocently seemed to believe that solving the nation's problems was more important to Congressmen than their re-election worries, debts to special interests and status in the Capital Hill Club. He was wrong. The new breed of young, educated, "professional" Congressmen have gained the appearance of competence (due mostly to their staff's), but they are practically incapable...
...needs of the urban poor, particularly blacks, and he has demonstrated a strange sense of loyalty by his actions in the Lance and Marsden affairs. Yet the good has far outweighed the bad. Half-assed answers are not necessarily better than no solution at all. Congressmen and the nation's economic elite their help in solving the biggest problems of the decade. Carter realizes this, and despite his efforts to resist the traditional inertia of national politics, he is getting pressure from all sides to be sensible, compromise and hold hands with the corrupt...
...years of coaching." All-Ivy senior Frank Sowinski leads Princeton into the contest with a 17- point average, helped out by a supporting cast of center Bob Roma (14), forward Bob Kleinert (nine) and guard Bill Omelt-chenko (nine). The Tigers' defense ranks second in the nation, holding its opponents to fewer than 55 points per game...