Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Large amounts of foreign aid were directed to the country (the U.S. provided about half the total amount, which since 1963 has been between $400 million and $500 million annually) and the GNP responded, increasing about 5 per cent a year since 1959-60. Yet another index of economic progress--the degree of income inequality within Pakistan--contradicts the optimism of the GNP statistics. Income distribution within the country has grown steadily unequal over the past 20 years. According to a February, 1971 Trans-Action magazine article, "About 75 to 80 per cent of the people of Pakistan...
...Connally has thus far refused to say precisely what bars must be lowered before the U.S. will drop the surtax, for the gamesmanlike reason that he wants other nations to make the first offer. Clearly, any progress in eliminating these barriers depends on how reasonably both sides define "tangible" concessions. Although far more conciliatory than before, Connally still sought leverage wherever he could find it. According to a Canadian version, he approached Finance Minister Edgar Benson at one point and drawled: "The Europeans and Japanese are ganging up on us, and we North Americans have to stick together...
...most important annual celebration. Most outside experts were still convinced that the mystery reflected a struggle for power within the Forbidden City, one that could eventually affect China's new outward-looking foreign policy, or Richard Nixon's trip, or other developments in progress. Instead of falling into place, however, the pieces of the Chinese puzzle seemed only to multiply...
...important role when the young Prince is crowned. The introverted LÓpez RÓdo, an expert on administrative law, is credited as the architect of Spain's economic resurgence, an average growth rate of 7.6% over the past ten years. He is convinced that economic progress must precede political change, a term he cautiously leaves undefined. Change comes "slowly in this country," he told TIME'S William Rademaekers. "But I see change coming. I personally believe it will come in January or February"-a hint that Franco might step down at that time...
...extrication from Moscow of KGB Colonel Evgeny Runge, who had led a spy network in West Germany. Until the Francis Gary Powers case, the U-2 operation was a major intelligence success. The CIA is also credited with obtaining superior information about Soviet military developments and Chinese nuclear-weapons progress, and with sound assessments of the situation in Viet Nam (which were frequently ignored 6y policymakers). Among its setbacks: the Bay of Pigs, although this was a failure of decision making as well as intelligence, and the failure to warn of the Berlin Wall's construction in 1961 or Khruschchev...