Word: allowence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early 1960s, when the two sides began girding for a bigger conflict, Saigon refused to allow the ICC to see the manifests of incoming aircraft (loaded with U.S. advisers and equipment). At the same time, Hanoi kept the commissioners from inspecting Haiphong Harbor. "The People's Army of [North] Viet Nam," said an ICC report at the time, "expressed its inability, despite its best efforts, to provide a boat with a suitable outboard motor...
...enthusiasm, the Social Democrats and Kiesinger favor 1) signing the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, 2) banning Adolf ("Bubi") von Thadden's reactionary National Democrats in order to deprive neo-Nazis of a shield of respectability, and 3) eliminating the legal deadline on murder charges to allow the judiciary to weed out the last remaining Nazi war criminals. Strauss takes the opposite position on each issue, and has been using his growing strength in his Hausmacht (power base) to give weight to his views...
...allow their people to vote, employers in urban centers - from store owners to white housewives - staggered working hours. Queues formed outside polling stations in the capital of Lusaka at daylight as people hurried to town. In rural areas, men and women went to the polling stations - in some in stances only coarse hemp wrapped around a square of gumpoles - through the jungle and bush and across plains flooded by heavy rains. They arrived by donkey, on bicycles, in wooden-wheeled oxcarts and World War I jalopies, or came clutching the sides of slim leaky boats hewn from tree trunks...
...internecine feud between "white Jews," who are descendants of traders, and "black Jews," who the "whites" say are the descendants of converted slaves. The white Jews, whose ancestors came from Europe and Baghdad, tend to be fair-skinned, while the black Jews are darker-complexioned. White families will not allow their daughters to marry into black families. Today, few Cochin Jews believe their community can last more than several decades. "This is our last blaze of light before we vanish," said one male leader of the colony...
...bureaus and the people who run them to behave like sensitive and sympathetic human beings. But "some regulations are vitally necessary," Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire insisted after last week's hearings. To that end, he has promised to introduce legislation next month that would keep credit data confidential, allow people to correct errors in their own credit records, and eliminate irrelevant or outdated information from credit-bureau files...