Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coggin in Dacca last week. "There is no longer any hope of a settlement." He urged that East and West Pakistan adopt separate constitutions, and that his followers refuse to pay taxes to the central government, which is situated in the West. He seemed on the brink of an outright declaration of independence for what he calls Bangla Desh (Bengal State), which would become the world's eighth most populous nation. If Mujib should make such an announcement, open warfare might well erupt between the East Pakistanis and the estimated 60,000 army troops, mostly Westerners, in their midst...
...seats in the 313-seat Constituent Assembly. The remaining East Pakistan delegates, Yahya figured, would align themselves with West Pakistani parties and prevent Mujib from winning majority control over the entire country. But in a stunning victory that amounted to a vote for wide-ranging autonomy, if not outright independence. Mujib's Awami League won 167 of the 169 seats and an overall majority in the Assembly...
...complete and absolute integrity of Pakistan." Nevertheless, it seemed doubtful that Yahya's decision to convene the assembly would pacify Mujib. Two days earlier, the East Pakistani leader said of the West Pakistanis: "I will break them and bring them to their knees." After such a statement, an outright declaration of independence could be little more than an anticlimax...
...Queensland, Australia, Mitsubishi has signed a long-term coal contract: in return, it is lending the developer enough money to help build a small town for the workers, a dam and reservoir, roads and a rail line. Despite this, Australia is one of several countries that have acted outright to discourage the sale of some raw materials. It has urged Australian corporations to stop selling bauxite to the Japanese in ore form, arguing that, to create jobs at home, the mineral should be processed into alumina before export...
Such a disaster was investigated by the AEC in its own Brookhaven Report, which suggested that reactors one-fifth the size of current models could contaminate up to 150,000 square miles of land, kill 3,400 people outright, cause 55,000 premature cancer deaths, and force evacuation of 450,000 people for over one year. An additional 4 million might have to be kept under close surveillance. Damage could exceed $7 billion. Such a peace-time, man-made catastrophe boggles the imagination. And physicist-writer Dr. Ralph Lapp has said he feels "Before the year 2000 it would appear...