Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Naomh Padraig approached the Emerald Isle, the airliner was joined by an escort of jet fighters from the Irish air corps. Later, five air corps jets saluted the Pope by flying over Dublin's airport in a cross-shaped formation. President Patrick Hillery, Prime Minister Jack Lynch and senior Cabinet ministers were on hand to greet John Paul. In keeping with modern papal protocol, Prime Minister Lynch and his Catholic colleagues did not kiss the Pope's ring, but merely shook his hand and bowed...
Their target is what they call "unbridled corporate power" in America. According to Fonda and Hayden, multinational corporations neglect the public interest in their rush for profits. Their prime example is nuclear power, which they urge be phased out and replaced with Government-subsidized solar energy. Says Fonda, with a catchy show-biz zinger: "It is time to look at crime in the suites, not just in the streets." Protests Hayden: "While we may have democracy in the political arena, we certainly don't in the economic one, where a board of directors has dictatorial powers." Fonda and Hayden...
...Egyptian and Israeli representatives meanwhile met in Alexandria for a sixth-and noisy-round of talks on Palestinian autonomy. The opening session turned stormy when Egyptian Prime Minister Moustafa Khalil pounded his fist on the table and barked that "good faith" had been "shattered" by the Israeli decision to allow its citizens to purchase land on the West Bank. Israeli Minister of the Interior Yosef Burg sarcastically retorted that the Egyptians were "using a big gun to shoot a small bird...
...Moscow "resolutely condemns the ideology and policy of Maoism as deeply hostile to Marxism-Leninism, the interests of socialism and the cause of peace." In Peking, Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping similarly put a damper on the Moscow meeting in remarks to a foreign visitor, Canada's ex-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Reported Trudeau: "He made it quite clear that in his mind the differences between Moscow and Peking have their origin in Russian chauvinism that is worse, as he put it, than in Czarist days...
Meanwhile, trouble was also stirring back in the Central African Republic, as it had been promptly renamed. Although Dacko released political prisoners jailed during the Bokassa reign, there was resentment when he reappointed many members of Bokassa's Cabinet. At the same time, supporters of former Prime Minister Ange Patasse, a prominent opposition figure who had quit the Bokassa regime in 1978 in protest over its atrocities, staged anti-French demonstrations when his departure from Paris was held up by technicalities. At week's end Patasse castigated Dacko as an accomplice of Bokassa and demanded he resign. Part...