Word: past
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...electoral support, Labor candidates would virtually lose by default. In this dire situation, some backbenchers began wondering aloud in the corridors whether Labor might employ a favorite Conservative Party tactic-that of changing Prime Ministers whenever party popularity plummets. This ploy enables the party to shift the blame for past errors onto the shoulders of the outgoing leader...
...knows how many spooks are lurking in the shrubbery and behind potted palms in West Germany, but over the past two decades 25,000 people have reported to the authorities that they were asked to spy. In the same period, 3,500 persons have been convicted of treason or treasonous relations. Yet, instead of becoming inured to the rampancy of spooks, the West German press continues in full cry on the spy-exposé trail...
...West Berlin. According to Die Welt am Sonntag, Sigl took with him the names of 250 Soviet agents working in Germany-a high figure for any spy to know in a well-run operation. Der Spiegel concluded that Sigl had actually been a double agent for the past nine years, working for the KGB while simultaneously being...
...America's richest nation, has seen its economy slide downhill for more than a decade. In 1967 alone, the rate of inflation was 135%, and the government ran short of retirement funds. Tough, recent measures taken by Pacheco Areco have slowed inflation to just over 6% for the past nine months, but at the highly unpopular cost of wage and price controls and curbs on strikes. The Tupamaros have not been able to persuade Uruguay's powerful Moscow-oriented labor unions, with their 240,000 members, to make common cause. Even so, they can rely on a fertile...