Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cent of bad discharges were issued administratively, without a court-martial, mostly for offenses that would not be crimes in civilian life. Yet the consequences for a less-than-honorable discharge is severe: veteran's benefits are denied, good jobs are almost impossible to obtain. Bad discharges help to account for the nearly half-million Vietnam-era vets who are unemployed...
...Polish alliance against the ruling Irish-who stand to lose considerable clout now that their most powerful patron is gone. The fact is that even though Daley always mounted impressive parades and dyed the usually opaque Chicago River a bright green for St. Patrick's Day, the Irish account for only 5% of Chicago's 3.1 million people. Fully 39% of Chicagoans are black, 12% Hispanic, 10% Polish; even Germans and Italians outnumber the Irish...
...pollution can only increase. Of the estimated 5 million tons of oil dumped into the oceans annually, tankers?partly by deliberately flushing cargo tanks before reloading?account for nearly one-third. This figure is sure to rise...
...pictorial attack on Madame Mao has been reinforced by a 9,000-word editorial in the Communist Party newspaper People's Daily. The article offered the first official blow-by-blow account of the plots perpetrated by the Gang of Four in the weeks surrounding the death of Mao and focused on the gang's prowess as forgers. The forgery involved the last instructions issued by Mao, which are presently being trumpeted all over China in order to legitimize the rule of Mao's successor, Hua Kuo-feng. Mao reportedly wrote to Hua, "Act in line with...
...classic guerrilla fashion, Polisario fighters are mounting up to five raids a week on enemy-held villages to drain the morale of the occupiers. Beckwith accompanied them on one mortaring mission and filed this account of a five-day, 900-mile venture...