Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What the activity adds up to, so far, is that many Asian leaders take seriously the prospect of a multipolar diplomacy emerging in the postwar Pacific. "Before, all of us were living under the umbrella of the great powers," Singapore's Foreign Minister S. Rajaratnam told TIME's Peter Simms, reflecting the uneasiness of many of his colleagues. "Thailand had America. We had Britain. Now they have taken away the umbrellas-and we are really beginning to feel the heat...
...shipment to world markets; Rhodesia needed the $25 million a year that the copper shipments brought its railroad in transit revenue. The arrangement-a triumph of pragmatism over politics-has now been scuttled by a series of guerrilla attacks by exiled black Rhodesian rebels who operate under an umbrella organization called FROLIZI (Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe-the African term for Rhodesia). After a particularly bloody outburst during the Christmas holidays, Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith closed the border to Zambia...
...after all, has ever seen a traffic jam under purple skies and whiplash rain--while a lone white stallion threads through the maddened crush--and an empty rocking chair balances a spread umbrella--and on the roadside an enormous pahllic stone keeps company to a vast vaginal entrances--and a movie crew dangles precariously from a careening crane--all culminating in a thousand car jigsaw squeeze outside the Colleseum exploding with volcanic glare...
Another possible contender is Congressman Herman Badillo. Badillo will probably get the support of the New Democratic Coalition, the umbrella group of liberal Democrats in New York City. However, his strength will probably be limited to liberals in Manhattan, blacks and Puerto Ricans. In his race three years ago. Badillo ran well in Jewish districts. However, after the controversy over the Forest Hills housing project, it seems unlikely that Jews will be as willing to vote for a Puerto Rican...
...Barcelona Banker Ramon Trias Fargas. "But we have one now, and these people have no voice in politics-yet." Franco adamantly refuses to give them one. Only two months ago he rejected a proposal by moderate advisers that he allow a variety of nonradical political parties under the sheltering umbrella of the National Movement to provide a broader sense of participatory government...