Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most Thais seem to have accepted with relief or resignation the demise of then-chaotic three-year-old "democratic experiment." Bangkok has quickly recovered its sybaritic style. The city's annual autumn festivals, its race track and fleshpots are jammed with tourists. Shares on the local stock market have risen 70% in the past three weeks. The bullet-and-grenade-pocked classrooms of Thammasat University, site of the bloody student rioting that preceded the coup (TIME, Oct. 18), have become something of a tourist attraction. But the total of 41 dead in the riots is not forgotten: cremations...
...will not take the risk of triggering another world recession. Says one expert: "OPEC members have realized that their rapidly expanding economies depend on the industrial world." The betting right now is for a 10% rise in the price of oil-which would, ironically enough, elicit a sigh of relief from all the nations that will have to pay the growing fuel bill...
...Jimmy Carter must have found his moment of solitude by now. It will not be filled with regrets or fantasies of what might have been, and his tears, the tears of relief and disbelief and gratitude will have dried. His thoughts must be on the future, and his conscience must be preoccupied with the awful, beautiful knowledge that from this moment hence, his every step will be the stuff of future history. All of these things may be surmised, and yet an outsider's comprehension must still be far from complete...
...Harvard student group is urging students and faculty members to skip dinner on November 18 to raise money for the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam), an international organization that sponsors development and relief projects in the Third World...
...stiffness as the 75-minute session wore on, emphasized the Democrats' main domestic issues. "The question," he said, "is what will we do to deal with the human problems of America?" His answer, delivered with few explanatory details: Attack unemployment (while still fighting inflation); reform taxes to "bring relief to the average income earner"; improve health care, housing, education and programs for the elderly. It was a more or less standard liberal Democratic shopping list. In reply, Dole said that the American people were turned off by "promises and promises and bigger and bigger spending programs and more...