Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...view of these "deliberate massacres," added Nkomo, "we cannot contemplate working with them. I don't think there will be a place for them in Zimbabwe...
...administer justice, and preventive detention laws became part of the heritage of colonialism. Emergency powers, first enacted in 1920, were given the army in Northern Ireland in 1973. But at home the British did not use martial law even during the worst days of the World Wars. Their view, at least since 1628, has been that governments must have the power to maintain order, but preferably no more power than necessary...
...black rule in Rhodesia, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, flew separately last week to Addis Ababa. There they helped Ethiopia's Marxist military rulers celebrate the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie I. More important, from Nkomo's and Mugabe's point of view, they had a chance to confer at length with visiting Cuban President Fidel Castro, one of their principal supporters in the six-year-old war against the Salisbury regime...
...Pechman, a liberal, points out that one goal of economic policy should be to increase productivity. But, he insists, it is impossible to know what kind of tax changes, if any, would do that, be cause economists are most uncertain what is causing the current slowdown in productivity. His view was disputed by several other speakers, but Pechman has a point: Congress is unlikely to find the best mix of policies to spur investment on its first try this year, and a long period of tinkering probably lies ahead...
California's celebrated Proposition 13 has become a puzzler for the rest of the nation. Some observers see it as part of a conservative backlash against the welfare state. President Carter says it vindicates his populist view that ordinary folks are rising in wrath against the well-to-do and their three-martini lunches. At the Time Inc. tax conference, Public Opinion Analyst Daniel Yankelovich, who conducts regular surveys for TIME, offered his findings...