Word: heavyhandedness
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Painful Eating. Chileans are already feeling the pinch of other new economic policies. The Allende regime had forced industry to hire unneeded workers; many of them have been fired, adding to Chile's high jobless rate. To blunt the inflationary impact of the artificially swollen money supply-Allende had...
After three weeks of heavyhanded military rule, some Chileans who at first supported the coup were beginning to have second thoughts. Leaders of the moderate Christian Democrat Party, stung because they had been unexpectedly suppressed when the Socialists and Communists were banned, advised their members to serve the junta only...
A special effort to stress honesty and integrity is being made by some candidates, such as Democrat Brendan Byrne in his campaign against Republican Charles Sandman Jr. for Governor of New Jersey. But, for the most part, the issues are ones that have become all too familiar in recent years...
Papadopoulos, who is not only chief of the military junta that has ruled the nation since 1967 but also Greece's regent, denounced exiled King Constantine (see box) for "an unforgiveable lack of maturity." He accused Constantine of supporting an abortive coup planned by royalist naval officers, which gave...
New Yorkers voted heavily in favor of a multipurpose $1.2 billion environmental bond issue. The funds will be used mainly to clean up the state's air and water supply, with special attention to the problem of sewage treatment. The success of the measure was largely attributed to a low...