Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This week's NATION section opens with the work of an unusual photographic contributor to TIME: Jeff Carter, 24, who recorded some family relaxation with his father, the President-elect...
From another quarter, the newly formed Committee on the Present Danger, came a demand for more Defense Department funds-a demand that conflicts directly with Carter's position that the department's budget can be prudently cut without impairing the nation's defense capability. The committee includes a galaxy of former Washington stars. It was organized mainly by Eugene V. Rostow, who was one of the Under Secretaries of State in the Johnson Administration. Among its 119 members are former CIA Director William Colby, former Treasury Secretaries John Connally and C. Douglas Dillon. retired Generals Lyman Lemnitzer...
...organized the field workers and signed one of the nation's first union farm-workers contracts. That three-year contract was renewed in 1970. Even today, fewer than 50,000 of the country's 2.2 million agricultural workers are unionized...
...York Times endorsed the boycott as the best of the available alternatives and called upon the Teamsters to let the UFW unionize without having to fight the "piratical raids and sweetheart contracts of the nation's biggest, toughest union...
Egypt is probably the nation in the Middle East that has been most active, in recent years, in seeking some kind of concord with Israel. Egypt has manifested some degree of flexibility. The Egyptians have sided with the Palestinians during the Lebanese war. Thus, an Israeli proposal for a Palestinian state could lead to extraordinary improvement in Israeli-Egyptian relations. Such a move would clearly have positive implications for the overall Middle East conflict...