Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STARVING CAMBODIANS who are trying by the thousands to flee their country attest to the monumental tragedy that has decimated that Southeast Asian people since the terrorist regime of Pol Pot took power in 1975. Reports from the few Western journalists and relief workers who have entered Cambodia in recent months indicate that the suffering continues under the present Vietnam-dominated Heng Samrin government, which overthrew Pol Pot earlier this year...
...arrival in Paris was marked by pageantry appropriate for the first trip to Western Europe by the top leader of the Chinese people. After Hua's American-built 707 jet rolled up at Orly Airport, he stepped onto an "extralong" red carpet for a brief walk to an Alouette helicopter and a 15-minute flight to the Esplanade des Invalides, where 150 mounted members of the elite Republican Guard were drawn up in splendid array. There was an obligatory wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe, a succulent lunch of salmon...
...NATO member with a window overlooking the Soviet Union, Turkey is a vital component of Western defense. Thus it is of no small concern to Washington that the country continues to be plagued by endemic political instability, terrorist violence and serious economic problems. In no small measure, Turkey's fruitless search for stability can be traced to lurching shifts in leadership that involve the country's two top politicians, Bülent Ecevit, head of the Republican People's Party, and Suleyman Demirel, leader of the Justice Party. Last week, in a routine that has now become...
...days went on and the panic spread, Western Union hired fleets of taxis to help deliver margin calls to speculators. It was common to see people rushing from their banks to their brokers with stock certificates and bonds they had just taken from safe deposit boxes. Insurance companies were besieged by people wanting to cash in or borrow on their policies...
Even Mickey admits that Mickey can be difficult. His present wife, a country-and-western singer whose performing name is Jan Chamberlin, lived with him several years before she agreed to become the eighth Mrs. Rooney. "Naturally, I was frightened because of his track record," she says. "I still am." Their chief problems center on her singing. Mickey tries to run her career for her. "He wants the complete say-so about everything," she sighs. While he has been touring with Sugar Babies, Jan, 40, has stayed at their home, just north of Los Angeles, which they share with...