Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MALAYSIA. The British-trained, racially mixed Malaysian forces are composed of a largely nonmechanized army of 52,500 that is engaged in a counterinsurgency war against Malaysian Communist guerrillas entrenched near the Thai border. The army has embarked on a massive modernization program, which is expected to be completed by 1983, but the Malaysians have had no experience in big-unit warfare and would probably be overwhelmed if confronted with massed armor and artillery...
...program is approved by the lame-duck Parliament, she will become the first woman to govern Portugal since Queen Maria II in 1853. The chipper diplomat, who is single, is undaunted by that prospect. She acknowledges Maggie Thatcher's political pioneering. "We have always imitated the English," she quipped last week. "After all, we only started liking our own port wine after they...
...Carter's ambitious fuel program could have been much tougher...
...first casualty of Jimmy Carter's Cabinet shake-ups was the momentum that he had been building behind his staggeringly expensive, exceedingly complex and long overdue new energy program. That is doubly unfortunate, because the damage was self-inflicted, and even more because the plan makes a start on attacking a problem that will continue to menace the U.S. long after the switches in the Cabinet have faded in significance...
...mass resignations in the President's official family broke Tuesday afternoon, talk of import quotas, synthetic fuels and energy independence was drowned out by a new buzz of puzzled speculation. Early in the week congressional Democrats were talking about whooping through key parts of the President's program, including the windfall-profits tax on oil companies that is supposed to provide all the money for Carter's plans, before the legislators recess on Aug. 3 for four weeks. But by week's end they were making plain that Carter, and the nation, will have to wait...