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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nationalist leader said, "Colonialism doesn't work," and cited a $13 billion debt and a 30-40 per cent unemployment rate...
...Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness. By Marshall Frady. (Little, Brown, $12.95): Frady knows a winner when he sees one. Just take a look at the subject for his latest book, Wallace. His choice of good guys might not be yours, but the book is well crafted at any rate. Frady supports the27CrimsonAnthea Letsou...
...think that is so serious. We have had 17 by-elections since I became Prime Minister and lost only one. At that rate, it will take the opposition 50 years to come into power...
...Burgess's two most prized possessions, which he insisted on showing to everyone, were an inscribed copy of Winston Churchill's war memoirs and a note from Anthony Eden in his own hand thanking Burgess for being so attentive during a visit to Washington. These would scarcely rate as revolutionary trophies. Philby, the only one of the four I knew at all well, he being my wartime boss at M16, never gave me an impression of having any serious intellectual interests. I regarded him as just an adventurer, who found in Stalin's very ruthlessness something...
Ohira's shaky political mandate also dooms his proposal for a tax hike to correct Japan's mounting deficit. The deficit, combined with a high inflation rate and a sharp drop in the yen, may have grave consequences for an already strained U.S.-Japan economic relationship. Japan has already begun to stopper its yen drain. These economic pressures will certainly curb Japanese willingness to liberalize import restrictions at a time when John Connally is bellowing about letting the Japanese sit in their Toyotas on the docks of Yokohoma. The only possible Japanese concession to American opposition prevails and cuts...