Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with his White House host. Carter praised his commitment to "individual freedom and liberty," as well as his leadership in lobbying for tighter controls over nuclear proliferation. Pérez applauded Carter's stand on human rights, saying, "Many years have passed since small and weak nations heard a voice rise from a great nation to tell the world that human values are paramount." In the 43-min. toast that Pérez delivered at the state dinner, he struck one of his favorite themes: improving the dialogue between the developed and the developing countries. Later...
Fireworks blossomed and flags rippled in Ottawa last week, as 23 million Canadians-or most of them, anyway -cheered the 110th anniversary of their national confederation. The $3.5 million birthday bash was a big change from last year, when merrymaking funds were slashed abruptly by an austerity-minded government. This time the question of national unity overrode any urge for thrift. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was determined to show that Canadians want to stick together as a nation despite the election victory of the separatist Parti Québécois last November in Quebec, his country's largest...
...civilian courts and a history of torture which is beyond belief." But the figures alone do not convey the horror; Baraheni puts them in human terms, in the context of Iran. "Imagine tens of thousands of educated men and women in prison while 75 per cent of the whole nation is illiterate," he writes. "Imagine hundreds of doctors in prison when every 50 villages in the country have only one doctor! Imagine roads awaiting construction while engineers are rotting in jails! The number and extent of my government's crimes against its people have...
...Crowned Cannibals could not have been published in Iran; it is written for Americans, people accustomed to thinking of their nation as free of torture and repression. Baraheni's description of Iran shows the fallacy of that belief: our aid has supported the Shah throughout his regime, as our aid has supported so many other repressive regimes throughout the world since the end of World War II. If they do no more, works like Baraheni's should remind us of the price at which our freedom at home is purchased abroad...
Robert Whiting's book orients the baseball enthusiast in a different manner. Some 20 years after Admiral Perry revealed Japan to the world, an American university professor taught some of his students how to play baseball. Since then, the nation has been hooked. Each year, some 12 million fans jam its stadiums to eat an American import called the hotto dogu and scream "ganbare" (Let's go) as Japan's twelve professional teams battle each other with the ferocity of a samurai...