Word: british
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trying to get along with the new rulers, and the main reason is Libyan oil. Since the '67 closure of Suez, Libyan exports have doubled because high-grade Libyan oil lies closer to Europe without the canal than most Arabian oil. Thirty-eight companies, mostly American and British, presently pump about 3.7 million barrels a day. Libya now ranks as the third largest oil exporter (after Venezuela and Iran). Since the government receives $1 on each barrel, oil accounts for 80% of Libya's national income...
...providing attractive services, Britain's three private medical insurers have developed a booming business. The largest, British United Provident Association, controls 14 nursing homes containing 464 beds, offers nine different hospitalization plans to its 1,500,000 members, and now takes in $30 million a year. Like the two other private firms, the company offers coverage for private medical care, hospitalization, nursing and surgical services...
...Every British jobholder pays a weekly N.H.S. tax of 46? per man, 38? per woman and 26? per child. The added expense of private coverage, a minimum of $58 a year for a family of three to a top of about $166, once made it accessible to only a small minority. No longer. Roughly 70% of Provident's recent business has come from company group policies. Once limited to top executives, these policies are being extended to more and more employees...
Despite the growth of private medical care, the 21-year-old National Health Service is in no danger of extinction. There have been bitter complaints (most recently over increased charges for false teeth and eyeglasses and imposition of a 30? prescription fee), but the British know that the program has served them well. In a recent survey, 95% of those interviewed rated N.H.S. good to excellent. Moreover, nine out of ten people who have private hospitalization plans still use their government-paid general practitioner as a free family doctor...
...clergymen have no monopoly on imagination. In British Columbia, Bishop Fergus O'Grady founded "the Frontier Apostolate," in which 174 volunteers serve as a kind of Far North VISTA for Catholic and non-Catholic alike in O'Grady's farflung diocese. In Lima, Peru, 100 young priests drafted a proposal of revolutionary social reforms, calling for the church to set the example. Surprisingly, Juan Cardinal Landázuri Ricketts moved out of his mansion and into a modest working class district. In Isolotto, outside Florence, suspended priest Don Enzo Mazzi (TIME, Dec. 27, 1968) is still holding his open-air Masses...