Word: broadens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee, whose activities have gathered momentum in recent months, grew out of a subcommittee of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). The subcommittee thought it would be more effective if it separated from RUS and formed an autonomous organization. Since February, the new, chairmanless committee has attempted to broaden its base of student support and educate the general public about women's studies...
...meeting was all the more remarkable because the Communist Party is still officially illegal in Spain, although the government of Premier Adolfo Suárez, in its efforts to broaden political participation, now generally looks the other way when it comes to the Communists' political activities. The government even permitted the party chiefs to hold a two-hour press conference. It also provided heavy security for the visitors. Carrillo himself, undoubtedly mindful of the right-wing assassination of five Communist labor lawyers six weeks ago, escorted his guests from the airport to their hotel in a bulletproof 1948 Cadillac...
Without negotiations of some sort, a guerrilla war that last year alone claimed 2,500 lives is likely to continue and broaden dangerously. Intelligence reports indicate that at least 500 Cuban and Soviet military advisers are already training Patriotic Front guerrillas in Mozambique. Some guerrillas have been taken to East bloc countries for advanced instruction. To ward off the Rhodesian air force, which has been effective against the guerrillas, surface-to-air missiles are being shipped in by the Soviets. White Rhodesians, too, appear to be gearing for war. More and more "boomers"-soldiers of fortune harking to the boom...
Carrillo's arrest threatened to become an international cause célèbre. Occurring just after a nationwide referendum that overwhelmingly endorsed Premier Adolfo Suarez's political-reform program, it raised new questions about the regime's willingness to broaden participation in Spain's political life. Communist loyalists staged intermittent work stoppages and street demonstrations to protest the arrests, and FREEDOM FOR CARRILLO demands appeared on Madrid walls faster than government workers could clean them off. Protesters rallied in Paris and Rome. Italy's Christian Democratic government, which is dependent on the tacit support...
...very, very difficult" to meet because the unemployment rate has risen to 8.1%. Some analysts are now talking of a 7.1% jobless rate by the end of 1977, but Carter later said he was sticking to his original promise. Concerning another pledge, Carter has not decided whether to broaden the blanket pardon that he promised to give during his first week in office to the 4,500 draft evaders of the Viet Nam War era. Carter is considering also pardoning 5,000 deserters and 85,000 former servicemen who went AWOL during the same period...