Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...underscore the firm position of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Western alliance. We think it necessary that the Soviet Union should at last declare its readiness to enter without prior conditions into negotiations on medium-range systems, and that possibility should be sought for disarmament and arms control in other sectors. We, the West, want equilibrium at the lowest possible level of armaments. But we shall not hesitate to secure equilibrium by our own efforts if it cannot be achieved through disarmament...
...Zimbabwe's Prime Minister, former Guerrilla Leader Robert Mugabe. Whether Mugabe will succeed in taming his wilder horses and making true his first promises of reasonable policies toward whites and other systems will have a considerable influence on us. If he cannot control his more extreme collaborators, then obviously there will be serious problems. The extent to which he might associate himself with dissident movements trying to subvert the South African government, either from outside or inside, is going to be of very great importance. But it would obviously be unwise and foolish of South Africa to sponsor...
...million. Of the 29 countries classified by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as suffering from "abnormal food shortages"-a euphemism for widespread famine-23 are in Africa. West Africa still suffers from chronic drought, but the deadly hunger there has been brought under control with emergency food supplies from developed nations. But now famine has struck again, this time in East Africa. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White reports...
...Helen's need of Teacher is obvious," Lash writes of Annie's work, the tireless hours spent spelling whole books into her pupil's hands, the sacrifice of her own impaired eyes. "But equally powerful was Teacher's reliance on Helen to keep her misanthropic impulses under control and to give her a sense of purpose in life." Annie saw and spoke for Helen; Helen loved and protected the woman she called Teacher in return. Their relationship was at once prosaic and parasitic. With Annie's death, Helen wrote a close friend, "For a while, I feel...
...only letter signed with a real name comes from W.K. Coors, of Golden, Colo.--"Word has reached me that an unfounded rumor that the Adolph Coors Company, or members of the Coors family, have contributed money or support to national gun control legislation continues to be spread. I wish to inform everyone that neither myself nor my company has made any contribution of this kind. It is unfortunate that unknown persons seeking to malign our company and injure our reputation have taken this dishonorable way of turning thousands of good friends against us.," The editor replies...