Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Predictable Shock. But King Juan Carlos and his Premier had their own reasons for favoring legalization of the party. For one thing, many Western European nations have hinted that an election without Communist participation would be regarded as a farce; Madrid desperately wants closer economic and political ties with the European Community. For another thing, if the Communists were not legalized they would have attempted mass demonstrations and fomented labor unrest during the campaign. Widespread pre-election chaos could have discredited Suarez's reform program and encouraged the ultrarightists, who oppose Juan Carlos' determination to guide his country...
Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment had long counted on Florida as one of the last three states needed to ratify the amendment. But they were in for a rude shock. Last week, after an emotional four-hour session, the Florida senate voted, 21-19, to defeat the ERA. Said a stunned ERA advocate: "I hope to God it isn't over...
...shock wore off, Rabin won sympathy and applause from Israelis for giving up power. Said the English-language Jerusalem Post: "He has done a service to the nation by his act. It will help clarify the standards of rectitude that the nation expects from its public officials." Rabin, however, left his government in a constitutional and political mess. Technically, he could not resign; that is against Israeli law. When he called for elections last December, Rabin became head of a caretaker government; now he cannot abdicate that responsibility. Explained an Israeli legal expert: "Even if the government allowed Rabin...
...calculated shock treatment worked. Toiling through the night, Berg and his committee drafted recommendations that the conferees readily accepted before their departure the next day. They voted not only to continue the ban on the worrisome experiments, but also to press NIH to establish levels of safety that should be required for different experiments. In addition, they decided that precautions to keep research organisms from escaping from laboratories had to include "biological containment." This required the creation of mutated strains of E. coli so disabled that they could live nowhere but in a test tube. If they did escape their...
...Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, Carter elaborated: "We don't want to interfere in other countries, but at the same time, there are basic principles and values we must continue to support. That's terribly important to the American people, but it's perhaps been quite a shock to the international diplomatic community...