Word: states
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shagari's pragmatism could spell success for Nigeria's reborn democracy, if he can curb the excesses of his party followers, who finished strongly in races for the federal senate and state assemblies. But it might also spell disaster if he permits the country to fall back into the fractiousness of the past. Says a Western diplomat in Lagos: "A lot of people have their fingers crossed on this...
...your foot in the mud that is now Morvi, you strike a body." So said Pankaj Zaveri, a survivor of the most disastrous accident ever to befall India. In the midafternoon of a torrentially rainy Saturday, the 197-ft.-high earthen Machhu dam in western India's Gujarat state suddenly burst open. The waters behind it boiled six miles down a river in the state's Saurashtra district and crashed into Morvi, a semi-industrial town of 75,000, known as "the Paris of Saurashtra" because of its many green parks and broad avenues. Mud houses were entirely...
...Party at least has correctly diagnosed the nature of Britain's racial ills even if it failed to push through any forceful program while in office. Says Merlyn Rees, Labor's shadow Home Secretary: "We need to counter the myths and propaganda about immigration and immigrants and state the positive case for a multiracial society. The real question facing us is not immigration but race relations...
...Angeles Times headlined, in mortuary gothic letters, TO THOSE WHO NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AN AVIATION DISASTER. The ad invited readers to call the firm collect for further counsel. (Twelve readers responded; so far none have signed up.) Is the ad ethical? Says California State Bar President David Levy: "The line between advertising and solicitation is pretty fine. They're pretty clever...
...suppression of ideas and possibly lead to book burnings. Says Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz: "Women who would have the government ban sexist material are the new McCarthyites. It's the same old censorship in radical garb." But feminists, who plan to take their fight to state legislatures, insist that the issue is violence against women, not free speech. Says Brownmiller: "It's a myth that obscenity and pornography are protected by the First Amendment...