Word: nationalizes
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Double Standard. If ever a regime deserved international investigation and condemnation, it would seem to be Amin's. Yet last week, after 4½ days of closed debate in Geneva, the 32-nation Commission on Human Rights, which practically never criticizes repression in any Third World nation, turned down a British proposal for an investigation of the situation in Uganda. Accordingly, the British government announced that it would take the matter to the commission's plenary (and public) session this week, demanding that a five-member subcommittee be named to look into the question of human rights violations...
...Nyerere, 55, who led his country to independence 16 years ago, the simmering guerrilla war in Rhodesia overshadows matters much closer to home. Besides the problem of his socialist nation's faltering economy, he is confronted with the collapse of the East African Community that bound Tanzania with neighboring Kenya and Uganda in economic union, and the open hostility of Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin Dada, who accuses him of plotting an "invasion" in cahoots with former Ugandan President Milton Obote. Nonetheless, the future of southern Africa remains Nyerere's main concern, as he made clear in an hour...
Within 20 minutes of the quake, rescue crews were on the streets of Bucharest. President Nicolae Ceausescu cut short a five-nation tour of Africa and hastily summoned a meeting of Rumania's Political Executive Committee. The group decreed a state of emergency, requisitioned food stocks, shut off all gas mains in the capital, and closed the university, presumably to create temporary shelter for the homeless and wounded. Troops cordoned off major portions of the downtown area to protect people from falling masonry, and possibly to prevent looting. Sports stadiums in the city were converted into makeshift hospitals...
Mary Richards' age (mid-30s) was also part of her charm-almost a relief after a period when the nation seemed overrun and overwhelmed by the very young. Timing, in fact, may have contributed to MTM's popularity. During Watergate and the long ending of the Viet Nam War, when the nation was feeling especially baleful, these characters in an out-of-the-way local TV station, with their family feeling, may have suggested that it was possible to deal with the world without being either Patty Hearst or R.D. Laing. They became part of the viewer...
Other economic figures released last week looked like a collection of statistics from the depths of a recession-but they were for January, the coldest month in 177 years in the eastern two-thirds of the nation. Exports fell almost $1.7 billion below imports, the worst one-month trade deficit ever: shippers could not get export goods out through frozen ports, and more oil had to be imported to keep homes warm. The index of leading indicators-those figures that usually foretell the course of the economy-dropped 1.2%, and factory orders fell 2.1%. The figures, says one Government analyst...