Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With T'ao purged and his well-oiled machine in Canton torn apart, the Cantonese in 1968 seemed forced to start all over again, as they had in 1949, to build a party apparatus, increase production, and figure out how their city, along with all the other torn, bloodied parts of China, might fit back into one whole. They faced this long haul, Vogel says, "with less optimism. less idealism, and less willingness to sacrifice," yet with "more wisdom and experience...
...party and support for the urban cause. At first, he has virtually no clout with the party's entrenched powers. The charges of opportunism do not fade quickly. Yet through the year, his fund raising and obvious attraction for the young, the blacks and other minorities build his credit...
...switch, Nixon guarded his right flank, fearing that Ronald Reagan or George Wallace might advance as the conservative leader if the President's policies began to look too liberal. Now Nixon moves a shade more toward left-center, emphasizing less Southern strategy and more urban programs, lest Lindsay build sufficient momentum to be a presidential threat...
...billion cubic meters of gas over 20 years, starting in 1973. To enable the Soviets to pay for the pipe before they deliver the gas, a consortium of 17 West German banks will lend them $328 million at 6.25% interest-practically foreign-aid terms. A West German firm will build a link extending an existing pipeline from the Czechoslovak border town of Cheb into Bavaria...
...fuel oil. Because Maine was underdeveloped and had good ports, Occidental Petroleum Corp., Atlantic Richfield and Atlantic World Port each proposed to build a refinery near Machiasport. Another company, King Resources, acquired 300 acres on Long Island in Casco Bay, where it planned to build a huge oil-receiving and storage terminal. At first glance, the projects looked like a bonanza. But few Maine residents rejoiced wholeheartedly. The state's famous thick fogs and treacherous coastal waters made oil spills from tankers a probability-and a potential disaster to Maine's fishing and tourism industries...