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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sympathy for the Soweto scholars; some of the university protesters wore placards saying WHY SHOOT CHILDREN? THEY ARE THE FUTURE and BLACK EDUCATION KILLS. In Parliament, the leader of the small opposition Progressive Party, Colin Eglin, accused the government's African administrators of "arrogance, indifference and rank incompetence." Eglin also demanded the appointment of a multiracial commission to "consider the social, economic and political reforms that are essential if we are to avoid conflict and live in peace in South Africa...
...Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.S. is tied for twelfth place with Japan (both countries devote 0.25% of their gross national product to such projects). Sweden is first (0.72%). The unchallenged occupants of 17th and last place are the Swiss (0.14%), even though they rank as the richest people among the world's industrialized countries, with a per capita income...
...Laird seemed to take issue with the tactic of painting him as an extremist. "I don't consider Reagan an extremist," said Laird. "I think he's got greater popularity inside the Republican Party than any other candidate. Reagan is much more popular than Ford in the rank and file, but you can't win the election in that area. Declared Republicans make up only 17% to 19% of the electorate." The remark about Reagan's popularity was a startling admission from a member of the Ford inner circle...
...union's violent history and associations with organized crime. Instead, drawing chiefly on Teamster financial records filed, as required by law, with the Department of Labor, it focuses on the style of life enjoyed by Teamster officials-and finds it far removed from that of the rank and file, who pay $ 120-5300 a year in dues to support it. The picture that emerges is of a clubby, entrenched leadership enjoying benefits unmatched in any other union and indeed in few corporations...
Moments later, a beaming Trin, the first Vietnamese prince of the church, was greeted by an enthusiastic round of applause. His appearance had lifted the anonymity from one of two men elevated to cardinal's rank in pectore (in the breast, meaning secretly) when the other 19 nominations were announced (TIME...