Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Helms' lawyer maintained that if his client went to trial on more serious charges, an adequate defense would require that national secrets be divulged. This was an ironic shift: throughout his long career Helms had taken many risks-even putting his life on the line when he had been a covert agent-to protect the nation's secrets...
...take away from Helms was three decades of memories, challenge and exhilaration-a record beyond the grasp of people like Senator Frank Church, an unrelenting Helms critic. Helms helped tug the strings that toppled the left-leaning Mossadegh in Iran and brought 25 years of comparative stability to that nation...
...expected, the U.N. Security Council voted 15 to 0 last week to impose a mandatory arms embargo on South Africa -the first time the U.N. has ever taken such action against a member nation. As U.N. resolutions go, this one seemed calculated to prove modestly effective. To be sure, it failed to create a defense crisis for South Africa, which is virtually self-sufficient in arms production. In fact, over the short run the U.N. vote may even have played into the hands of South African Prime Minister John Vorster, who is anxious to rack up a big majority...
...final resolution was a compromise between the council's five Western members (the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany and Canada) and their three counterparts from Africa (Benin, Libya and Mauritius), representing the U.N.'s 49-nation African group.* Earlier in the week, the U.S., Britain and France all vetoed African efforts to impose economic sanctions against Pretoria-a step that would have caused real damage not only to South Africa but also to the Western powers and many smaller nations that trade with it. In the end, the African members settled for a permanent arms embargo. The Western...
...year after the end of a wanton struggle that raged for 19 months, killed 40,000 people and nearly destroyed a nation without noticeable gain for either Christian or Muslim combatants, Lebanon is painfully rebuilding. The primary symbol of the country's hope and determination to once again live at peace with itself is the reconstruction of Beirut, which serves not merely as Lebanon's capital but as home for half of its 3 million people and, until the war crippled it, was a gleaming Middle East social and commercial hub. The fighting devastated Beirut's business...