Word: public
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conceded that it had little chance of passage. Embattled Finance Minister Simcha Ehrlich appeared to be barely weathering demands for his resignation. Factions of his own bickering Liberal Party, whose support is essential to Begin's Likud coalition, had earlier attacked him for withdrawing his proposed series of public spending cuts, which are considered necessary as a first step toward halting the inflation spiral...
...Muslims are expected to fast from dawn until sunset. The new revolutionary government in Tehran did its best to ensure that the fast was observed Restaurants and snack bars closed during the daylight hours. The Minister of Interior ordered police to arrest anybody caught eating, drinking or smoking in public. Shutters were also drawn on the country's cinemas and few remaining theaters. Regular radio and television programming was suspended in favor of religious readings from the Koran...
...specific grounds were given for Ibrahim's ouster, but Yazdi said it was because of "the general tone of his reporting. American correspondents are not reporting accurately on Iran. We do not say everything is rosy, but by their continually stressing the negative aspects of our revolution, U.S. public opinion has come to believe that everybody is shooting everybody...
Jackson's public meetings with blacks were warm, emotional affairs, his private meeting with executives of U.S. corporations predictably though and cool. An ardent opponent of American investment in South Africa, Jackson was unimpressed by token attempts of some of the 350 American firms doing business in the country to challenge apartheid. Said he: "U.S. companies don't realize that real issue is not just providing social services but social change...
...Congress to pass a tax on the "windfall" profits the companies stand to receive under Carter's plan to decontrol the price of domestically produced oil Carter last week urged Americans to "let their voices be heard" against "an oil lobby working quietly" against the tax. While the public fumes at the big profits, most experts have defended the high earnings claiming that they finance further exoration. In any case, the profits boom is temporary: soon demand will come ore into line with supply, prices will stabilize and the rise in earnings will ease