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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debt service and pensions are mandated by law. Programs in other areas had already been subjected to the big squeeze. Yet the presidential directive insisted that more gristle be found. Higher excise taxes on consumer products-which Congress would probably block anyway-had been rejected as a means to build up the surplus. The Administration's budget, Nixon declared, must be "credible...
...know that most of you were dragged into this. May I welcome you back into the fold?" The general called for three days of prayer and pleaded with the remainder of Nigeria's 53 million people not to reject the Ibo rebels. "Let us join hands to build a truly united and great nation," he said...
Black students argue that the goal of Harvard's Afro-American studies should be to build up the black liberationist mentality and teach specific skills that can aid the cause. "The only reason a black majors in Afro-American studies," says Mark Smith, one of six students on the university's 13-member standing committee, "is because he feels it will best enable him to work for his people when he gets out of college." Smith's stark rhetorical question: "Does Harvard, which we regard as part of the oppressor, have the ability to teach black people...
...increasing restiveness is becoming a problem for Indira. Only two days after the party meeting in Bombay came to an end, her government announced that the giant house of Birla, which is to Indian radicals what Dow Chemical is to the American variety, had been licensed to build a $75 million fertilizer plant in partnership with U.S. Steel. The National Herald, founded by Indira's father and now the unofficial organ of her wing of the Congress Party, condemned the deal as "unsustainable...
...Bonded Couriers. Later, frenzied crowd sounds and prefight color by Sportscaster Guy LeBow were dubbed in. The whole show is guaranteed to run at least 70 minutes, and the tab is $5 or so. To build suspense and box office, Woroner is trying to keep the result "more closely guarded," as one ad says, "than the gold at Fort Knox." All of the seven possible conclusions (knockout, TKO and decision going either way, plus a draw) were filmed...