Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gadget may become the best friend of anyone who resents the way football games interrupt Christmas dinner, but it's bound to confuse the Nielson ratings people. What will happen when shows that were on two weeks ago capture the prime-time Saturday viewing audience. Who really cares...
...Prime Minister Mamhoud Salem, who announced the decision to the Egyptian parliament, said the countries had tried to stir up opposition to Sadat's peace initiatives by helping to arrange last weekend's summit of Arab states who have taken a firm line against recognition of Israel...
...last, the Prime Minister accepts one man, one vote...
...years ago, Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith vowed that one-man, one-vote majority rule would not come to his country-where blacks now outnumber whites by 24 to 1-"in 1,000 years." But last week, in the Rhodesian city of Bulawayo, Smith changed his tune. As a starting point for negotiations with moderate black nationalist leaders living inside the country, he declared, he was now prepared to concede the principle of majority rule, based on universal adult suffrage. In return, he expected some sort of constitutional guarantees for whites under a future black government...
Rescue operations soon became entangled in politics. The state government is still controlled by the Congress Party, but Prime Minister Morarji Desai's Janata Party hopes to capture it in elections next February. Inevitably, there were charges from New Delhi that the state had been negligent in failing to warn villagers and careless in rescue efforts. In truth, emergency operations were reasonably effective. If anything hampered the relief effort, it was the seemingly endless helicopter inspections by officials seeking credit for coping with the disaster...