Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...league was equally balanced between radical and conservative states-or, as the leftists put it, between the "free Arabs" and the "kept Arabs." Now there are eight left-leaning states (Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Algeria, Sudan, the two Yemens and Libya), and six conservative governments that accept Western support and admit Western influence (the three kingdoms, plus Lebanon, Kuwait and Tunisia...
...region, Nigeria ranks as the world's 13th oil nation in terms of annual output (anticipated 1969 production: 255 million barrels). By attacking the oilfields, Biafra hopes to press the companies (Gulf, Phillips, Shell, British Petroleum and Italian Agip Nucleare) to talk Gowon into negotiations. Though Nigerian officials admit that oil production has dropped 60,000 barrels a day because of the war, the oilmen insist that they have no intention of interfering in an attempt to achieve a ceasefire. Two weeks ago, to step up the pressure, one of Ojukwu's rocket-equipped Swedish planes hedgehopped...
...nation's first under-30 university trustees, most of them recent graduates, have been appointed this year at Maine, Lehigh, Princeton and Vanderbilt. The eight state universities in Kentucky have begun to admit student leaders as ex officio trustees. In Vermont, Wyoming and Washington, legislatures are weighing proposals to name youthful members to state university governing boards...
Telephone company officials readily admit that service has been poor, and blame many of their problems on the "unprecedented" growth in the tremendous demand for telephone service in the past 20 months. In an effort to over come deficiences, New York Telephone last month began bringing in an emergency force of 1,500 workmen from other parts of the U.S. "Our pride has been hurt," said William Sharwell, the company's vice president for operations. "We won't rest easy until service is good everywhere for everyone...
There have long been reports that the Green Berets also employ some dirty ways-if occasionally necessary ones. It is as easy to confirm such reports as it is to get the CIA to admit that it engages in spying on other countries. Nonetheless, the Special Forces have been accused of torturing and killing prisoners, parachuting poisoned foodstuffs into enemy camps, and slipping doctored ammunition, designed to explode on use, into enemy arms caches...