Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groups considered joining their forces under a single command and mounting a unified campaign in the forthcoming elections. Nevertheless, many guerrillas have been killed in intramural gun fights between the rival factions. Says James Chikerema, a former guerrilla leader: "The security forces sit on tops of hills and wait for ZIPRA and ZANLA to knock each other to pieces. Then they move in and kill." In November ZIPRA and ZANLA units clashed 100 miles north of the capital as both sides attempted to gain control of a contested slab of territory before the cease-fire takes effect. To minimize such...
Richard Nixon's opening to China and his detente with the Soviets were, in their way, creative and peaceful substitutes for crisis. Power balances changed and much of the world paused in other mischief to watch and wait...
...demand that exceeds 1,300 a day. Business is up 122% over last year. Morande talks bemusedly of visiting a retail stove store in Portland, Ore., where ten salesmen, gracing 1,000 sq. ft. of floor space, "actually were handing consumers numbers, just like in a delicatessen, to wait in line for a stove." Some economists dismiss such sales as "life-style purchases, made to express social attitudes." Believers go right on cutting, scrounging and burning wood...
...units. One Chicago store shows shoppers a quick how-to-do-it movie to help them with installation. Insulated window shades, made of a multilayered quilt of polyester and aluminized plastic, are a fancier and costlier option at $60 to $100 per window. For those who can afford to wait out winter in bed, down comforters-selling at four times last year's rate -and electric blankets are recommended. Macy's 15 New York City area stores now offer an array of such items in specialized boutiques aptly known as "65° shops...
...Dacca, Bangladesh, eager buyers crowd around empty tanks to wait for deliveries of scarce and costly kerosene. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzanians line up for hours for deliveries of sugar and other basic necessities that are hopelessly delayed, partly because there is little gasoline for trucks. Gas is rationed; service stations are closed three days a week; and President Julius Nyerere urges his Cabinet members to ride bicycles to work. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian cab drivers crowd the streets and snarl traffic during a three-day strike to protest a 58% rise in gasoline prices. Meanwhile, riots break...