Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What a way for friends to talk about each other. Cairo radio accuses the region's oil potentates of amassing wealth in secret foreign bank accounts and ignoring the needs of their own people. An Egyptian editor suggests aloud that Saudi Arabia has "turned to the Soviets to become a member of the Warsaw Pact," adding: "Have the Russians given
...Japanese aid to Asia: It is natural from a geographic viewpoint [that] Japan should continue to place emphasis on Asia. The pan-Pacific region is not like Europe. The economies are in different stages of development, the quality of the economies is different, and any associations are very loosely tied. The ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] does exist, however, and it must be respected, but it is not like the European Community association. This means that our aid will move more on the bilateral plane [instead of being filtered through the regional association...
...significant than Jones himself, who was distributed and demonic, yet only one of a thousand. Their normal humanity, not their madness or mindlessness, stands out, their journey with undimmed belief from America and into the jungle. It all leads inexorably and even naturally to final dissolution in some unmapped region--just as the hard-bitten crew of the Pequod rowed fearfully yet willingly under the raging Ahab, to the great white whale, to the end of the absolutist quest. How can we so easily write them...
...large part of that country's steel industry. In September, French steelworkers called a one-day strike against a government plan to rescue their industry from bankruptcy by, among other means, eliminating up to 30,000 jobs over the next five years. Textile workers in France's Vosges region earlier staged an angry march through factory towns to protest the downfall of the once mighty Boussac textile empire. In Toulon and Hamburg, shipyard workers held demonstrations for government action to prevent further closures...
...industry has suffered the most. Over the past five years, at least 3,500 enterprises have been closed and more than half a million jobs lost. In Ghent alone, home of Belgium's cotton industry, unemployment levels have reached 11%, roughly equal to those in France's eastern Vosges region. In all, a million more workers are expected to be laid...