Word: priming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing that Britain's Conservatives did not manage to win in their stunning election upset last month was a reasonably long political honeymoon. Last week, less than a month after Prime Minister Edward Heath had moved his things into No. 10 Downing Street, he was coping with not one but two major crises...
...quickly turned into a bloody riot. Tanks rumbled out and gunfire spluttered. The Golden Horn bridge was closed and ferry service across the Bosporus, linking the European and Asian halves of the city, was stopped to contain the rampaging mobs. With four dead and 100 injured, the government of Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel imposed a month-long period of martial law on Istanbul and the nearby industrial city of Izmit. Last week, the parliament extended martial law for another two months...
...deserved a larger setting than Suzy Knickerbocker's society column, where it appeared: that Washington Post Company President Kay Graham, 53, saw Britain's most eligible bachelor every night during a visit to London and even extended her stay a week. "Absolute nonsense," said a spokesman for Prime Minister Edward Heath, 54, and went on to add that Heath's own reaction ranged from "amusement" to "incredulity." Fact was, Kay flew over for the elections. The only time she and the Prime Minister got together was in the intimacy of a mass press conference...
...Thais. Facing a budgetary deficit of $250 million in 1970, the Bangkok government last week announced that duties and excise rates on more than 200 imported items would be drastically increased, some by as much as 300%. The regime was so worried about the unpopularity of the measure that Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn spent a full hour on TV explaining that Thailand needed more money for arms because of the serious threat on its borders. Thanom indicated that the threat came partly from Thailand's native Communist insurgents, eight of whom were arrested last week. But the gravest danger...
...prime offenders, of course, are not so much the dogs as their owners. Cities abound with curb-your-dog signs; those near Manhattan's U.N. building deliver the message in four languages. But who heeds them? Owners know that cops are often too busy even to enforce the laws requiring leashes...