Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Tehran, thereby depriving Iran of most of its domestic fuel supply. The Iranian Oil Ministry imposed a drastic rationing of home heating oil, following earlier restrictions on gasoline. The fall of Khorramshahr gave Iraqi President Saddam Hussein his first major victory. It also left the Iraqis in complete control of the Shatt al Arab and bolstered their military position as they continued assaults not only on Abadan but also on the other key Khuzistan cities of Ahwaz and Dezful. Iraq's First Deputy Prime Minister, Tana Yasin Ramadan, reportedly stated that Baghdad's objective was to take...
From morning to nearly midnight, Third World delegates to the 152-nation meeting of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Belgrade vented their complaints against the Western press, demanding a "new information order" that would give them greater control over international reporting of their affairs. Last week the Third World nations used their numerical superiority in UNESCO to move that new order closer to reality...
...long and sometimes bitter negotiations in Belgrade, U.S. and European representatives successfully stood their ground on two important points. One involved funding and control of UNESCO's newly established International Program for the Development of Communication. This organization will help channel Western communications assistance (both governmental and private) in the communications field to Third World countries. In a compromise resolution on UNESCO's much debated MacBride report-a global communications study by a panel of experts under the chairmanship of former Irish Prime Minister Sean MacBride-the West also fought off Third World attempts to exploit the report...
...drama began in June, when researchers at the U.S. Center for Disease Control in Atlanta determined that a disorder called toxic shock syndrome (TSS) was related to women's use of tampons. In September Procter & Gamble's popular Rely tampon was identified as the brand most closely associated with the illness, and within days the company withdrew it from sale. Then some tampon makers voluntarily began running newspaper ads describing the health hazards linked with the product...
...only an advisory body and the Pope sets the agenda, bishops have an opportunity to come to the Vatican every few years to present their ideas on church problems. The synod of 1969, a year after Paul's hotly disputed reaffirmation of the ban on artificial birth control, brought a demand from the bishops that they be consulted next time before the Pope dropped any such doctrinal bombshell. After that, Paul rejected urgings from his bishops to call a synod on family issues, probably because he feared opening up birth control to discussion again...