Word: optional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the principle of rule-or-ruin has failed, the only option left to the shortsighted ex-rulers is to scream and call the oil exporting countries names more becoming of themselves for their predatory exploitation of the same countries during the past century...
Keeping the countryside poor, however, is no longer an option for Bangkok. Kriangsak declared 1979 as the "year of the farmer" and launched an ambitious $2 billion rural reform program to be renewed annually. Said Kriangsak: "Thai farmers will eventually be standing proud and tall in the coming decade...
DIED. James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, 93, Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1948 until his retirement in 1970; in Los Angeles. At 29, Mclntyre traded in his option on a partnership in a Wall Street firm for the seminary and the priesthood. Ordained in 1921, he put his financial expertise to good use for 25 years on behalf of the archdiocese of New York, seeing it soundly through the Depression and eventually becoming its auxiliary bishop. Appointed head of the Los Angeles see in 1948, he won acclaim and a Cardinal's red hat (in 1953), in part for building...
...that point the controllers could use some of the 6,000 remaining pounds of fuel to rotate the craft into various nose-forward, "low drag" positions, in the hope that this would prolong Skylab's life by anywhere from one to five more orbits. By contrast, a second option would be to send the vehicle into an early tumble, which would cut from one to three orbits from its natural, uncontrolled reentry. A third option would be to do nothing and let gravity take its course...
...Washington, is already used to taking the heat: since April, thermostats in Government buildings have been set at 80° F. Hamilton Jordan found relief by throwing open his White House windows, but millions of office workers who would be affected by the new edict have no such option: most new commercial buildings are steel, aluminum and glass cocoons, hermetically sealed against the weather-and cooling breaths...