Word: a11
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...concluded that the Nablus mayor had been unfairly misquoted as defending the massacre. But at a Cabinet meeting next day, Weizman stood by his original decision and urged the ministers to approve the deportation of Shaka'a. They did so unanimously. Except for one town leader in Gaza, a11 the remaining Palestinian mayors immediately resigned and later announced, for good measure, that they would begin a hunger strike. Many Israeli moderates were embarrassed by the Cabinet decision, believing it to be an exaggerated and heavyhanded response to a minor incident...
Still, the religious attitudes of the main characters do not necessarily reflect Murphy's. The Marine gunnery sergeant, the Associate Justice and Declan Walsh himself a11 express some distress at the new Roman Catholic ritual, with its abandonment of the old music and the Latin. Murphy and his wife Terry (their two daughters now live in other parts of the country) regularly go to an English-language folk Mass...
...steam generators be successfully combined with jet aircraft engines and high-rise elevators? Last week United Technologies Corp., the Hartford, Conn., aerospace conglomerate, ventured half a billion dollars to find out. The company declared its intention to buy up a11 12.6 million shares of Babcock & Wilcox Co., a leading New York-based manufacturer of coal-and nuclear-powered generators, for $42 a share in cash. The acquisition would unite two companies whose revenues last year totaled almost $7 billion...
Still a third interpretation comes from Iowa Democrat Richard Clark, head of the African subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Clark, who has talked with the leaders of a11 three Angolan factions, believes that they all have much the same goals and that the Russians may just be wasting their money in backing the M.P.L.A. "The history of Soviet intervention in Africa," says Clark, "is one of almost total failure. If the M.P.L.A. wins, the Soviets will be lucky if they can hang on for a year...
...A11 figures reckoned in current dollars, unadjusted for inflation. * Experts use the euphemistic, though accurate, term transfers to include not only arms sold but also those provided...