Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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None of the so-called leaders even suggested that the entire U.S. socioeconomic structure hangs precariously. The threat of anarchy, easily precipitated by a natural or contrived catastrophe (food crisis, energy shortages, inability to communicate, epidemic disease, confiscation of private property by Big Business and/or Government, atomic blackmail by organized or unorganized crime) apparently remains remote to most leaders...
...Seoul regime's influence-peddling efforts in the U.S. stem from an understandable worry about its American connection. Under constant threat from the North, the South Koreans depend for survival on their U.S. ties-and those have seemed less secure in recent years. The Park government's political activity in the U.S. began in 1970, after the Nixon Administration announced it would cut American forces in Korea from 60,000 to 40,000 troops. Fretful about a Jimmy Carter campaign pledge to pull out more troops and perhaps cut economic aid as well, the Koreans kept up their...
...election was a catastrophic defeat for lanky, Harvard-educated Liberal Premier Robert Bourassa. In 1973 his party won 102 of the 110 seats in Quebec's legislature and 55% of the total vote by campaigning singlemindedly against the threat of l'indépendance represented by Lévesque and the Parti Québécois. This time Lévesque and his followers took 41% of the vote and 69 legislature seats, including Bourassa's own riding in Montreal. The Liberals, with 34% of the vote, were reduced to a humiliating 28 seats, partly because...
...Rhodesian "troopies," twelve white and 88 black civilians. Nearly 100 others have been killed in early November. One major guerrilla goal has been to cut Rhodesia's rail and road links with South Africa-vital conduits for the fuel and ammunition that Salisbury needs. To assess the threat, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs accompanied one of the twice-daily convoys that travel along Route A-4 from Fort Victoria to Beitbridge on the South African border. His report...
Both forwards are 6 ft. 7 in., and while the senior Bergen is cast more out of the "tough" Jerry Lucas mold, sophomore James is a strong offensive threat, whom Sanders terms "a good shooter who we're looking for continued improvement from during the season...