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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Citizens of the quiet, sand-swept Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott (pop. 103,500) were trudging to their jobs early one morning last week when a brusque military order was broadcast: Go home. A political storm had blown up in the hot Sahara wind. Shortly afterward, as army Land Rovers equipped with machine guns appeared on street corners, the nature of the tempest became clear. Officers of the 15,000-man Mauritanian army, led by Lieut. Colonel Mustapha Ould Mohammed Salek, 42, had overthrown the regime of President Moktar Ould Daddah, 53, the mild-mannered strongman who had ruled the poverty...
...agency Sovfracht, on Aug. 1, and settle down in Moscow. The couple are supposed to have met either in Moscow, where Christina negotiated the charter of her ships to carry American grain to the U.S.S.R., or in Paris, where Kauzov was sent on business. When the Soviet government got wind of the romance, it is said, Kauzov was called home and fired. Later, Kauzov, who has a glass eye from a childhood accident, began supporting himself as an English tutor. When TIME's Moscow correspondent called Christina at the Intourist Hotel, she said firmly: "I have never talked...
...cost of $1.2 billion, United will take 30 767s, twin-engine, wide-bodied jets that so far exist only as models in a wind tunnel. The new plane, designed to fill the gap between the long-range jumbos and short-range feeder planes, will be in the air by mid-1982, carrying 197 passengers on trips of 500 to 2,200 miles. It will look like a much fatter 707 with two huge engines hanging from thinner, longer wings. Because of its advanced aerodynamics and improved engines, it will be quieter, more comfortable and some 35% cheaper to operate than...
...knew what he was doing -- and kicked and threw his arm around across his body very fast ("remember to snap your wrist" the coach always said) and popped the ball from his hand. It arced high high high and Foster, deceived by the apparent force of Bobby's wind-up and throwing motion, started to swing too early. When he saw the pitch bloop, he checked his swing and tried to begin again. But his feet were already crossed from his first effort and he hacked away spastically, twisting his ankles and falling down...
Overlaying the wrangle about tax policy is the growing debate on how, after more than three years of solid expansion, to guide the economy into a "soft landing"-to use the current Washington catch phrase. That is, how to shake the wind out of inflation without tipping the country back into recession. More signs of gathering trouble on the price front arrived with last week's reports. The cost of living jumped another .9% in May, which was as bad as the April rise and translates into an annual inflation rate of 11.4%. Once again, the chief villain...