Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even as Washington worried about that Soviet brigade in Cuba, President Fidel Castro was luxuriating last week in an ego-boosting extravaganza. Basking in a tropical sun and bedecked with banners carrying anti-imperialist and anti-American slogans, Havana radiated a fiesta-like atmosphere as Presidents, Prime Ministers, dictators and Kings of 92 states flocked into the Cuban capital for the opening of the weeklong sixth summit of nonaligned nations. As host of the conference, Castro was seen and photographed with a wide variety of Third World leaders, ranging from Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, 87 - the last surviving...
...Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, the third largest bank in the country, earlier this week raised its prime interest rate to a record high 13 per cent...
These institutions still have a pot of money-the state mutual savings banks alone command $145 billion in deposits-but they are being squeezed. As a result, mortgage money is getting tighter, just as all borrowing rates are rising. The prime rate went up last week to a record...
LONDON--Close to 100 demonstrators changed "Murder" as former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith arrived here yesterday on his first visit to Britain since the minority-ruled nation declared its independence...
Smith is a member of Zimbabwe Rhodesia's 12-member delegation, led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwe Rhodesia's first prime minister...