Word: alongers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read with interest of Zachary Zzzzzzzzzra's efforts to be the last listing in the San Francisco telephone directory [Oct. 29] I send along the first five listings from the recent Melbourne, Australia, telephone directory to illustrate the lengths some driving schools will go to for that coveted No. 1 listing...
...Shah's goal, however, was to make Iran a modern, Westernized state, and if that meant equal rights for women, so be it. He aimed to make Iran one of the world's five great powers, along with the U.S., the Soviet Union, France and Japan. The idea might have seemed laughable initially but, as Western demand for oil kept climbing, the Shah's ambitions began to look more plausible. The Shah, whose country pumped 7% of the non-Communist world's oil imports, led the way in the first huge price increase, from...
...however, and that was a spectacle of sorts, but not as big as what came through the tube. By last week Hansen was more than electronic news-he was entertainment. He was being filmed for the Today show and Good Morning America. There was plenty of criticism voiced along this strange journey, but attention is often what registers on television. That Hansen had and kept...
...worldwide effort to save the Cambodian people from mass starvation continued to gather steam last week. A group of Western nations asked U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to declare the sprawling refugee camps along the Thai border to be internationally supervised "safe havens," protected by the force of world opinion. Private relief efforts were also gathering momentum. On the day after Thanksgiving a DC-8 cargo plane carrying $1.5 million worth of canned meat, baby formula, antibiotics and other supplies landed at Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport. It had been chartered by Operation California, an organization headed...
Just how great are Cambodia's needs was apparent as we drove along the road from the airport into Phnom-Penh. The broad two-lane highway was clogged with trains of bullock-drawn carts, people weaving to and fro on bicycles, and trucks, some of them inherited from the long departed U.S. During the past month, a tide of refugees from the famished countryside has swelled the permanent population of the city from about 10,000 to 30,000; approximately 70,000 others are encamped just outside...