Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Guard quickly moved in reinforcements. On Tuesday afternoon, without warning, it launched a three-hour aerial attack, concentrating on the poor barrios in the hills around the city. Visiting Matagalpa shortly after the attack, TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich found the hospitals filled with wounded. At least 17 people were dead. Many residents had fled the city, but those who remained were defiant. "We know they are going to bomb us again," said an elderly woman. "It shows what a barbaric regime we are living under...
...long had their leaders foisted upon them. The only answer, many people now feel, is a genuinely free election -and not the usual ballot-stuffing kind in which votes are bought by handing out five córdobas (about 70?) and a bottle of guaro (cheap rum) to the poor and illiterate. Failing that, they fear that Matagalpa is likely to be remembered as only one in a chain of bloody rebellions...
...operating freedom from the politicians in Whitehall, has long emphasized crude production over marketing. The company produces the "blackest" barrel of oil in Europe-that with the largest proportion of low-profit heavy fuel-and early this year closed its biggest refinery, in Rotterdam, for two months because of poor sales. On the other hand, it has done the best job of any Sister in exploiting new oil finds and cutting itself loose from OPEC. As late as 1970, according to Chairman Sir David Steel, BP got 85% of its crude from OPEC countries; by 1985 the proportion will...
...street-wise ex-con who got a law degree in jail and now defends the poor and downtrodden. His legal methods are pushy, his language rough, but you can be sure he gets results for his clients. Smartly enough, the series' creators have also provided the hero with a perfect foil: Patrick O'Neal as an elegant corporate lawyer who takes Kaz into his firm. Whenever it seems that Leibman might burn a hole in the tube, Old Pro O'Neal trots out to cool things down...
What manner of man was this new world celebrity? The week brought forth the first crop of Luciani stories: the schoolboy in the foothills of the Dolomite Alps playing hookey to catch birds, the farm boy doing chores barefoot to save shoe leather for his poor family, the young seminary professor devouring books during his two sojourns in a tuberculosis sanitorium...