Word: western
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free speech (TIME, Oct. 31). It was the only publication in Russia to re port on such historical documents as Alexander Solzhenitsyn's letters to the Writers Union about the banning of his works. The Chronicle regularly offers listings of the latest officially forbidden books by both Western and Russian authors circulating in samizdat editions in the Soviet Union...
However unlikely that prospect, the activity of the exiles has worried Tito. In retaliation, he has begun slipping paid informants and assassins across the border with groups of ordinary workers who arrive daily in major West German cities. Western experts estimate that some 1,000 U.D.B.A. informants are keeping an eye on Yugoslav workers, and that about 100 others are in West Germany to handle more sensitive assignments. Whatever their number, the agents work efficiently. In Munich alone during the past year, there have been six unsolved Yugoslav murders and several mysterious disappearances...
Congress did provide specific job criteria-along with an annual quota of 170,000-for countries outside the Western Hemisphere. The law gives first call to spouses and unmarried children of U.S. citizens. So many of them applied from certain countries, mainly Italy and the Philippines, that skilled workers were left on a 17-month waiting list. The new bill would relieve the pressure by lowering the percentage of relatives admitted, creating more openings for workers with special abilities...
...1970s to reduce the leverage of the Ontario unionists, who have a habit of striking at the expiration of each three-year contract. Inco has acquired concessions in Guatemala and Indonesia. The French firm of Le Nickel is mining in New Caledonia. Most important, recent discoveries show that Western Australia may some day rival Ontario as a "nickel province." For the moment, however, anyone who has a source of nickel can make a mint...
...important advances in international relations this year is that the Western nations have surmounted their currency crises and, largely as a result of the French devaluation and German revaluation, entered a new period of monetary tranquillity. The world's confidence in the value of paper money is measured by the volatile free-market price of gold: the higher the price, the greater the doubts among investors as to the worth of currencies. Since, last month's upward revaluation of the West German mark, gold has dropped abruptly. From an early October level of $41.20 an oz., the price...