Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems we finally have a President! A leader. One who seriously cares about this nation and is willing to help us help ourselves to overcome our energy shortcomings [April...
Richard Nixon's public ordeal on Watergate may finally be over. Certainly the nation has had enough. As he faced a televised grilling last week on the scandal that destroyed his presidency, the disgraced ex-President forced viewers to suffer through most of the same old distortions and deceptions (along with some new ones) on the now tedious details of the criminal cover-up in his White House. But then, for some 25 emotional minutes at the end of the broadcast, the nation got its first-and, it could hope, last-glimpse into the anguish and genuine regrets...
...death last fall of New York Don Carlo Gambino, who as capo di tutti capi had brought a measure of peace to the nation's Mafia families through guile, diplomacy and strong-arm discipline. His elaborate funeral marked the end of an era, for he was the last of the graybeard Godfathers who dominated the Mafia in the 1950s and 1960s. The others are either in their graves or living in expensive Sunbelt retirement homes in Florida, Arizona and Palm Springs, Calif...
Relations between the two countries depend in part on the outcome of Turkey's June 5 elections. Demirel's Justice Party is being challenged by the liberal Republican People's Party of former Premier Bulent Ecevit, who became something of a national hero by ordering the Cyprus invasion. Ecevit has been shot at four times on the hustings and angrily claims that his opponent prefers "pistols to polls." Although the campaign had been marred by violence, the nation was stunned by last week's massacre in Istanbul's Taksim Square, where 150,000 people...
...imported cars, which took 20% of the U.S. market in April. Foreign car makers are far ahead of Detroit in the technology of fuel saving and weight reduction. For example, front-wheel-drive systems already are standard equipment on many Volkswagen, Audi, Fiat and Honda subcompacts. Thus, if the nation's consumers do not like the new cars that Detroit produces, they will have somewhere...