Word: planned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration last week offered yet another plan, and also changed its tactics. Still hoping to balance better the five-member junta, Washington dispatched Assistant Secretary of State Viron Vaky to Venezuela, a country that would welcome the downfall of Somoza. Officials in Caracas compiled a list for Vaky of five respected Nicaraguans...
...where junta members would be asked to add as many as four of the people to the provisional government; meanwhile Vaky, hoping to build support for the proposal among other Latin American nations, visited Colombia and the Dominican Republic to persuade them to recommend the plan to the junta. "We're willing to talk about expanding the junta," said Sergio Ramirez Mercado, one of its five members, "but this should be done directly between Nicaraguans...
...wealthy Nicaraguans have been filtering into the U.S. on tourist visas. Many of them are living in Florida. An informal meeting of the board of one of Nicaragua's largest corporations was held in Miami. Most say they are only waiting out their country's crisis and plan to return to Nicaragua when the country is calm again and run by a democratic government...
...trillion for the U.S. The average Chinese buys only $6 worth of goods per month, excluding food. Out of a population of an estimated 960 million, only about 95 million people receive regular wages. For the others, who are paid partly in rice and other grains, Chen's plan to raise living standards has scarcely come a moment too soon...
Unfortunately, squabbling among local communities slows the selection process. Since most rapid transit authorities encompass at least two and sometimes as many as eight city and county governments, new plans tend to become ensnarled in local rivalries and prejudices. Virginia Governor John Dalton has just sidetracked a planned 1% sales tax in the state's northern counties that would have helped support the Washington Metro underground-and-elevated rail system. Detroit's plan for a southeastern Michigan transit system is being blocked by opposition from adjoining towns whose leaders say that they must pay more than a fair...