Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iranian students seem to have had more impact abroad than at home. This year 100,000 Iranians are studying in other countries?more than 37,000 in the U.S. alone?because there is no room for them at their own universities. Angered and articulate, they have formed a vocal vanguard against the Shah in almost every major city in the world, airing their opposition with slogans in the London subway or demonstrations in Los Angeles, Washington or New York City. Many wear masks when they demonstrate for fear that agents of SAVAK, the heavyhanded Iranian secret police, or authorities...
Indeed, both Pakistan and Turkey seem to be veering toward the "nonaligned movement." Pakistan has already achieved "guest status" in the group, and Turkey is applying for the same...
...genuine horror story, calculated to make the most alarming of Rhodesian doomsday prophecies seem true. As a blood-red sun was sinking behind the thorn trees on the Zambezi escarpment, a lumbering Air Rhodesia Viscount airliner took off from Kariba on a flight to Salisbury. Ten minutes later the pilot, John Hood, 36, reported that he had lost control of his starboard engines. "We're going in," he radioed. In a few moments, his craft crashed into the thick bushland of the Whamira Hills...
...blustered that Africa was about to see "its first race of really angry white men." Almost certainly there would be acts of vengeance by the Rhodesian armed forces, probably in the form of retaliatory raids against guerrilla camps in Zambia and Mozambique. Even many whites who had begun to seem receptive to the idea of eventual black rule in Rhodesia wondered, after hearing Nkomo claim responsibility for the air crash in a BBC interview, wondered anew whether there could be a political agreement with...
...strength of some indicators, Callaghan would seem to have little cause for seeking the delay. The latest polls show Labor running only slightly behind the Tories in voter approval, 47% to 45%, a vastly improved standing from that of only a year ago. Yet Callaghan and some of his closest advisers were not so sure. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, in particular, warned the Prime Minister "not to go for the first patch of blue sky." His reasoning: there is a good chance that Britain's economic recovery, notably a decline in inflation from 26% a year...