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...Suárez González and dominated by his Democratic Center Union. Voters in India swept Prime Minister Indira Gandhi out of office after 18 months of her emergency rule. The new Prime Minister, Morarji Desai, launched civil and criminal investigations into the discredited Gandhi government, but by year's end had still not focused his attention upon India's real problems of overpopulation, economic inflation, unemployment and growing labor troubles...
...time the ministers' jets landed in Caracas, the freeze of early '78 was virtually set. In his speech to the opening conference, Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez made a last desperate attempt to obtain a small increase. He offered a quixotic proposal "for the good of humanity": prices would be increased 5% to 8%, but OPEC's additional profits for one year would be channeled to developing countries that have no oil to help them pay off their $180 billion foreign debt. During a series of bilateral meetings with the ministers the first day of the conference...
...remains: a small but proud nation cut in half by a huge waterway under the control of a foreign power. The arrangement may once have been economically justified, even a historical necessity, but it is a current indignity for Panamanians. As Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez told Carter: "The Panamanians feel exactly about the Canal Zone as North Americans would feel if the British owned the Mississippi River." In fact, Americans had much the same attitude as contemporary Panamanians when the Spanish and French (not the British) controlled the Mississippi at the turn...
...desert. Haddad also planned the 1975 terrorist raid on OPEC headquarters in Vienna, which forced the oil-producing states to pay $25 million to ransom their ministers. The commander of that attack was Haddad's sometime deputy, the notorious Venezuelan known as Carlos (real name: Ilyich Ramírez-Sánchez). Carlos has served as the liaison man between terrorist groups in Europe and the Middle East...
Your story on the recent voting in Spain appears to equate the victory of Premier Adolfo Suárez, rather than the election itself, with the triumph of Spanish democracy...