Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rampant spread of Christianity is the best news we've read in years, and it gives us renewed hope for the future of our great nation...
That was hardly what Chileans had voted for. Before last week's national "consultation," as the balloting was described in Chile, Pinochet had insisted that the vote had "nothing to do with internal politics." Instead, he claimed, it was a chance for Chile to send a message to the nation's international critics. Pinochet had ordered the referendum in December after passage of a U.N. General Assembly resolution that condemned Chilean authorities for "torture, disappearance of persons for political reasons, arbitrary arrest, [and] detention...
...renounced her dictatorial ways. But as the February elections approach in four states traditionally ruled by Congress, the party is in disarray. Pro-and anti-Indira factions are fighting over the right to use Congress's cow-and-calf emblem on the ballot-a crucial issue in a nation with 64% illiteracy. Now, in a plague-on-both-your-houses mood, a significant number of Congress Party regulars may cast their votes for Janata's man-with-a-plow emblem-a symbol for millions of the Desai government's restoration of civil rights in India...
Turkey's latest political crisis interrupted negotiations with officials of the International Monetary Fund, who were seeking to help avert national bankruptcy -including a threatened cutoff of credit for petroleum shipments from Libya and Iraq; IMF officials tired of cooling their heels during the crisis and returned to the U.S. to await the organization of Ecevit's government. Currently, Turkey's inflation is 35%, and unemployment is a huge 20% of the labor force. The nation is also gripped by political terrorism involving extremists of both the left and the right -the latter thought to be encouraged...
...Music Hall is not officially a historic monument, but it surely is something of a national shrine. As soon as it opened in 1932 as Rockefeller Center's "Showplace of the Nation," the theater became proof positive for millions of Americans that there was no bigness like show bigness. Something preposterously grand about the Music Hall raised it above its nearby (and now nearly forgotten) movie-palace rivals, like the Roxy or the Paramount: its scale, its colossal adornments, its dizzying spaciousness. Its founding impresario, the late S.L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, loved to boast that it was the largest indoor...