Word: returns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eager to return to power, Demirel blames Ecevit for the fact that Turkey is threatened by bankruptcy. The country has exhausted its foreign exchange reserves, faces $13 billion in foreign debts, and total exports earnings ($2.3 billion last year) barely cover the cost of imported oil. A group of 24 nations, led by the U.S., West Germany, Britain and France, agreed last month to provide $1.5 billion in emergency assistance. That aid was contingent on Turkish acceptance of an austerity program proposed by the International Monetary Fund...
Another threat to Berlinguer's supremacy comes from such hard-liners as Armando Cossutta, 59, who bitterly assailed the present leadership at last April's party congress. Cossutta and his allies want the P.C.I, to return to militant opposition, which would mean the use of strikes and labor unrest to bend the government to their will. Should the Communists decide to break with the Christian Democrats and go into permanent opposition, the hard-liners stand to gain power within the party...
...emergency meeting in Zurich, the European airlines persuaded their national civil aviation authorities to allow the DC-10s to return to the air, even though the U.S.'s National Transportation Safety Board had not yet determined the probable cause of the Chicago crash. Even so, passengers showed little or no hesitance about flying in DC-10s again...
...information either unreliable or lacking, correspondents developed a cooperative news-gathering system of their own. They would venture forth in groups of three or four, attaching themselves to one faction or the other while they witnessed a few hours of combat. At the end of the day, they would return to the Hotel Inter-Continental in Managua, where all of them were staying, and pool what they had seen...
...cream parlor sitters return to Bailey's, that venerable institution on Brattle St. Closest to an old-fashioned soda fountain, Bailey's sports tables and the most sumptious sundaes in the Square...