Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks--the MPLA and the FNLA have battled it out in the muceques of Luanda with mortars and bazookas. Having been driven from the capital, the last FNLA troops are now besieged in an old cliffside fort dangerously close to Angola's only oil refinery. The MPLA's military success has destroyed the provisional government, and FNLA march on Luanda from the North seems imminent, and a full scale war may start...
...angry comedy is what seems to have been overlooked by most critics and audiences of Hellman's plays. The Little Foxes, which was written in 1939 as the first play in a Hubbard family trilogy, was a great success, but Hellman felt it had been misinterpreted, taken too seriously. In 1946, Hellman writes in Pentimento. "I believed that I could now make clear that I had meant the first play as a kind of satire. I tried to do that in Another Part of the Forest, but what I thought was funny or outrageous the critics thought straight stuff: what...
...mayors had no more success in finding ways to deal with what some of them called a ticking time bomb: the growing power and aggressiveness of government workers' unions. Some have the power both to paralyze cities and to block the re-election of any local officials who dare to defy them. The U.S. now has some 12 million state and municipal employees-double the number in 1960-and about one-third belong to unions. The largest general public-employee union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), has 700,000 members, from accountants to zookeepers...
...Soviets have amply demonstrated their determination to make the mission a success. In the past two years, they have thoroughly tested three Soyuz spacecraft and extensively overhauled the design following the 1971 hatch failure that killed three cosmonauts. Moreover, while the Americans had only one Apollo ready to launch, the Soviets prepared two Soyuz sinps in case one developed a last-minute problem that could jeopardize the flight...
Amnesty's success has grown in proportion to its reputation. White mentions that prisoners often receive more food and better treatment once it is known that Amnesty has adopted their case. "In countries where repression is a serious issue, everybody in the jails knows about us," she says. Amnesty's services extend beyond merely obtaining a prisoner's release. The organization sometimes supports a prisoner's family while he is in jail, and often helps him to reorganize his life after he is out. White stresses that Amnesty does not only adopt famous dissidents, but "the little guy who nobody...