Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kremlin. Britain is expected to base some new Pershings on its territory, but West Germany last week indicated that it would do so only if joined by one other Continental NATO member. Bonn's ruling Social Democratic Party is worried about a potential uproar from its vocal left wing if West Germany becomes the only Continental NATO state to have nuclear missiles capable of reaching the U.S.S.R. Washington remains optimistic that...
...everything from coffee (Turkish coffee is available only on the black market) to diesel oil. Moreover, religious and ethnic feuds have led to a frightening increase in violence. In the past 21 months, 2,100 people have been killed, most of them in confrontations between left-and right-wing extremists...
...Fahri Koruturk and resign; he declined to try to form a new government and recommended that the mandate be given to Demirel. The Justice Party holds only 183 seats in the 450-member house. To form a government, Demirel will have to put together a coalition with two right-wing groups, the Muslim Nationalist Salvation Party and the ultrarightist National Action Party. Neither is a very palatable partner for Demirel's moderate party...
...country has long been on a collision course with anarchy. Since January, at least 600 people have died in clashes between El Salvador's military government, left-wing terrorists and murder squads directed by the country's ultra-reactionary oligarchy. Marxist guerrillas have kidnaped a score of foreign businessmen, extorting at least $40 million in ransoms. The kidnapings sparked a flight of foreign capital that further weakened the tottering economy of one of the hemisphere's more densely populated nations (531 people per sq. mi.). Presiding over the chaos was General Carlos Humberto Romero, 57, an inept...
...defense in Peoria, but here in the cradle of liberty, the only state that voted for McGovern in '72, the home of hundreds of thousands of college students and young professionals, the three fell over each other in trying to appear as the real hope of the broad left wing of the political spectrum. Kennedy and Carter campaigned for the JFK nostalgia vote while Brown went for the anti-nuke, anti-corporate inner space forces...