Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carried out," said C.D.S. President Diogo Freitas do Amaral, citing the decline of public services, continued high unemployment and balance of payments deficits. The social peace that has characterized Soares' term has been shattered by several violent demonstrations and bombings. Earlier this month, 20,000 right-wing demonstrators-including wealthy businessmen, dirt farmers from the north and neo-Nazi youth-marched through Lisbon to show their discontent...
Phil Evans then tied the tilt up for th last time as a perfect wide-wing pass from linemate Bobby McDonald led him past the defensemen and only a soft wrist shot away from Harvard's sixth goal...
...counts 25,000 subscribers. The opera company, nearly as good as it is bold, puts on the complete Wagnerian Ring cycle in German and English every summer. In a burst of civic pride, voters last month approved a $19 million bond issue to build a second theater, a rehearsal wing for the opera and symphony and another art center that will house the Tutankhamun exhibition of Egyptian art in 1978. Now about the urban problems...
...Africans, doubled its previous support (to 16.7% of the vote), but elected only 17 members to the new Parliament. The other two English opposition groups, the conservative South African Party (three seats) and the Natal-based New Republic Party (ten seats) were virtually wiped out. So was a right-wing Afrikaner splinter group, the Herstigte Nasionale Party, which won no seats...
...election strengthened the verligte (enlightened) wing of the National Party as voters approved a number of attractive party newcomers. Among them: Dr. Jan Marais, 58, the original driving force behind the independent South African Foundation and a maverick Afrikaner who has questioned many of the government's apartheid laws; Christophe Rencken, 40, a political commentator for the South African Broadcasting Corp.; and Denis Worrall, 43, the English-speaking former director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University. Worrall advocates a substantial revision of the government's apartheid blueprint, including some kind of constitutional role...