Word: pan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tokyo-based Asian correspondent for the London Times; Peter Gill, 31, the London Daily Telegraph's man in Tehran; and Loren Jenkins, 36, Newsweek's Hong Kong bureau chief, refused to pledge submission and were hustled out of New Delhi at dawn Tuesday on a Beirut-bound Pan Am flight. The New York Times, TIME, the British Broadcasting Corp. and CBS-TV also turned down the pledge. Said Richard Salant, president of CBS News: "If we sign, we are either lying or submitting to their rules for bad journalism." A few reporters from United Press International, Associated Press...
...Pan American World Airways seemed, until a few days ago, to have found a most ironic way out of a financial nosedive caused largely by doubled fuel bills. The government of Iran, one of the nations most instrumental in forcing up petroleum prices, had been negotiating to provide the airline with $300 million so that it could pay off restless American creditors and rebuild working capital. Last week irony was followed by intense disappointment; the deal appeared to have fallen through, leaving Pan Am facing another money squeeze...
Though the Iranians refused to say whether the loan was on or off, the signs were not encouraging. Pan Am Chairman William Seawell went to Tehran last month with high hopes for progress, but returned without ever seeing the Shah. He was told by other Iranian officials that all proposed foreign loans are "under review." Despite high oil prices, slackened world demand cut Iran's petroleum revenue by $4 billion last year, to $16 billion, and Iranian Ministries are jostling to grab all available funds for domestic development projects. Privately, Iranians also express worry about Pan...
...Holden Roberto, it also began among the European-educated, but was originally connected quite closely to Bakongo nationalism and then to Pan-Africanism. The Bakongo, former residents of the Kingdom of the Kongo destroyed in the nineteenth century, are a populous nation divided among Zaire, Congo, and northwestern Angola, whose bitter experience with forced labor on the Portugese coffee plantations provoked them to a bloody revolt in 1961 and to energetic resistance ever since. While the FNLA's precursors sought to reconstitute the Kingdom of the Kongo, whose last king died in 1962, Roberto's contacts with African nationalists...
Whether the health programs pan out or not is problematic at this point. But the program does sound like a logical move in a world of government bureaucracies that is plagued with illogic. And if somehow Harvard manages to get a break in legislation and a slackened role of government interference from HEW, it seems like a small price for the nation to pay for improved health care...