Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Third, defend the "grossly undervalued dollar" by. buying up dollars in world markets. "We're out of our minds not to go in and spend whatever it takes. I don't think that it will take more than $20 billion to $30 billion, but it wouldn't bother me if it were $100 billion...
Amin has been a fond Page customer since 1973. That year a Page vice president sold Amin a Gulfstream after giving him a lift from Uganda to a meeting of Third World leaders in Algiers. Page subsequently sold Amin a Lockheed cargo plane and furnished crews for it. When Amin wanted to buy medical supplies and seed wheat, Page executives rounded them up from U.S. suppliers. Amin gave Wilmorite the contract to build Uganda's new $5 million U.N. mission in Manhattan. Only after Congress began investigating U.S. suppliers selling equipment to Uganda about a year ago did Page...
...case, Third World commentaries on Paul's death were generally far warmer than those that appeared in the West, where the late Pope is widely seen as a leader who started out boldly but lost his nerve. During a British radio talk show, Broadcaster Ian Gilchrist offhandedly described Paul as a "silly old fool who caused misery to millions of gullible people." He was promptly suspended. To influential Austrian Catholic Publisher Otto Schulmeister, Paul's reign "seemed a pontificate of disintegration." Even commentators friendly to Paul argued that his administration stagnated in the 1970s, and his implementation of Vatican...
...Zambia. To be sure, there are still many tea-sipping High Church bishops, but there are as well a few black ones with more than a passing interest in Marxism. And though the "mother" Church of England still claims 30 million adherents in the U.K., only in the Third World is the church actually growing...
MARRIED. Anna Karina, 38, ex-wife and protégée of France's New Wave film director Jean-Luc Godard, and Daniel Duval, 34, also a film director; she for the third time, he for the first; in La Garde-Freinet, France...