Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that of either Japan or Israel was making it a new frontier. With 70% of its work force employed in the service sector, California was the world's most advanced industrial state. Kansas City, Mo.'s Midwest Research Institute rated its "quality of life" tops in the nation. Few disputed that conclusion, since annual per capita income ran 18% above the national average. California was the future, and it worked...
...state rushed into the '70s without breaking stride. Its gross product was larger than all but five countries; were California an independent nation, its per capita income would have been the world's highest. Yet, statistics aside, something was wrong. Michael Davie noticed the change in his 1972 book, California: The Vanishing Dream: "In the very part of the globe where there is the greatest concentration of knowledge and the most power over nature ... many people had begun to doubt whether knowledge and power really did bring worldly happiness. The economic and technological machine was grinding...
...society at all. Once every institution is toppled and all behavior patterns are violated, the euphoria of freedom turns to boredom. Today the vitality of Los Angeles is beyond dispute, but San Francisco's health is questionable. The city that spawned a counterculture now leads the nation in suicide and cirrhosis of the liver. Nor is California any longer a rollicking trend setter. While innovators in other states experiment with megastructures and mass transit, Californians dawdle with their latest amusement: the video game...
...fact, is exactly what the military leaders promised. The army ruled Pakistan from 1958 until the 1971 civil war, which ended with the secession of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). This time the officers show no inclination to stay in power any longer than necessary. In his broadcast to the nation, Zia declared that the army would guarantee elections in October and then return the country to civilian rule...
...appointed chief of staff by Bhutto last year over several higher-ranking officers because of his reputation as a nonpolitical "soldier of Islam." But finally Zia decided to take action, alarmed by increasing clashes and the distribution of weapons to Bhutto's supporters. As he told the nation last week, "When the political leaders fail to steer the country out of a crisis, it is an inexcusable sin for the armed forces to sit as silent spectators...