Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debatable proposition that Zaïre, the former Belgian Congo, is the most ungovernable of African states. Having staved off the latest threat to its existence -an invasion of Shaba region by Angola-based Katangese secessionists-the U.S. and its Western allies turned to a larger problem: how to save the huge, resource-rich land from its awesome problems, and from itself...
...newsreel footage from Hitler's heyday? A movie or television drama about the Third Reich? No. The scenes were from recently filmed documentaries about neo-Nazi organizations in West Germany. Although their numbers are minuscule, and their threat to democracy in the Federal Republic nonexistent, the neo-Nazis have become more openly militant in recent months - inspired, perhaps, by the brazen terrorism of the leftist Red Army Faction...
These people, however, are in the minority; for most, inflation means a cramped life-style in the present, and fear about the future. It is raising a threat to the economy too. At the moment, consumers are maintaining a fast buying pace, largely by plunging into debt: installment debt rose a record $4 billion in March, $3.7 billion in April. But consumer-confidence surveys released last week by the Conference Board, a nonprofit business research group in New York City, and the University of Michigan showed a sharp drop in plans for major purchases, mostly because many consumers think they...
Barre is moving now because the political and economic climate is more propitious than at any other time during President Giscard's four-year tenure. The Socialist-Communist opposition is still deeply split. With the threat of a leftist victory out of the way, prospects for the French economy have improved. The franc is steady, trade is in surplus, consumers are spending and corporate investment-which had been stagnant in anticipation of wholesale nationalizations by a leftist government-is picking...
...improvement in their lives. A few years ago, a French author wrote a futuristic novel in which the world's hungry banded together in a kind of vengeful crusade and descended on the industrialized world. One need not take that vision literally to recognize the seriousness of the threat...