Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lies about Chile are easy to debunk. It is easy to show that the protesting women were upper class matriarchs, complaining because higher wages for workers meant more costly luxury items and food. It is easy to point out that the truckers were not salaried drivers, but independent owners who controlled their own trucks. Under Allende, production in the state-run economic sector, in fact, rose 20 per cent, and 35 million acres of land were redistributed to peasants...
...church-going Catholic, O'Neill is a moderate social drinker who plays golf for recreation, contentedly shooting in the upper 90s. Instead of joining a fashionable suburban country club, O'Neill slips away to a public course, pays his $ 1.60 and waits for a threesome to come along that needs a fourth...
Virtually all of the material which Stott examines was produced by members of a privileged middle class for others of the upper and middle classes about people belonging to the lowest rungs of the class at the bottom. Yet none of them except Agee and a few others wrote as though he or she were particularly aware that "solidarity with the oppressed" involved anything more painstaking than the simple and straightforward feelings that presumably animated one's writing and that one shared with one's friends and cohorts...
Aches and Pains. Kissinger's principal advantage in last week's negotiations was his dizzying, diplomatic milk run aboard Air Force Two, his blue and white 707 jet, between Jerusalem and the village of Aswan on the upper Nile, where Sadat was recovering from a bad case of bronchitis. Kissinger made three trips between Sadat and Meir in Jerusalem- who was also ailing, with a painful case of shingles-before he was able to reach an agreement. But by week's end, in a dramatic demonstration of his achievement, he had only to make one final flight...
Despite the economic advantages of unification, Tunisia and Libya are otherwise so incompatible that observers jokingly referred to them as "the odd couple." Tunisia has been influenced by the West since Roman times-most recently as a French protectorate (1883-1956) -and has a sophisticated and urbanized middle and upper class. Bourguiba, 70, was educated in French schools and has tried to modernize Tunisia by welcoming Western investors. As long ago as 1965, he called for recognition of Israel. He abrogated many strict Islamic laws, banning polygamy and urging his people to ignore the dawn-to-dusk fast during...