Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Fuji's example started the uproar, the city offers no solution. Mayor Hikotaro Watanabe confronts a familiar dilemma: "To stop paper production will prove too costly a step for the city. But to let the production go on will prove too dangerous a proposition to our citizens." The prefecture has been equally unsuccessful in banishing hedoro. A first suggestion, to dredge up the sludge and dump it 200 miles offshore in the Pacific, was quickly dismissed by scientists as ecological madness. When officials next proposed to pump hedoro into "temporary repositories," one outraged citizen spoke for many...
Because of the uproar, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew hastily postponed his first visit in 19 months to Malaysia. "We tender our apologies for any inconvenience caused," said Lee, who personally had ordered the anti-hippie campaign. "But it is not irreparable; it will grow back in a matter of weeks." He added, however, that if the loss of hair had made the young men less attractive to their girl friends, "we will send up wigs...
Many movie companies are going through a period of drastic cutbacks, both in personnel and production. But over at Cannon things are in a prosperous uproar. The Park Avenue nameplate is bright on the door, the furniture is new and the painters are still at work. The company expects to put six or eight movies into production during next year with a total budget of $2,000,000. If its record so far is any indication, Cannon may soon fulfill the ambition expressed by its 26-year-old president of being "the new United Artists...
...amid the uproar, the Army quietly reminded its detractors that it had on earlier occasions in 1967 and 1968 dumped nerve gas in the ocean off the New Jersey coast, and that so far there have been no recorded complaints...
...ARMS UPROAR: The Tories' third misfortune was more of their own making. It involved the delicate balance of Commonwealth relations. Sensitive to the feelings of non-white Commonwealth members, and acknowledging resolutions of the United Nations against apartheid, Harold Wilson banned the sale of British arms to South Africa in 1964. The Tories indicated that, if elected, they might agree to resume arms sales for "external defense," as provided for by the Simonstown Agreement of 1955. Under that pact, Britain had sold some $50 million worth of warships in return for naval base facilities on South Africa...