Word: als
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eyes in front of the white stucco Building Four of the Southeastern Fair on the outskirts of Georgia's fair capital city, watching a television crew from the NBC show "America Alive" set up their lights and paraphernalia. Caught in the middle of a yawn as a big black Al Capone limo rolled up. Out jumped--no, not hoodlums bearing Tommy guns--but masked men and women, towels up around their faces to conceal them from the members of the press and the old black men lounging in the shade of a melt-your-polyester-shirt-by-seven August morning...
...always, fortunately, the Crimson, defensive backfield is a strength. Back Steve Potysman and adjuster Tom "Bat" Masters on will more than hold their own, while Fred Cordova, Al Ippolito and sophomore Mike Jacobs should fill up the rest of the four slots competently...
...cows, the Soviets take four and leave you one. The Fascists leave you all the cows, but they come and milk then all.' I'm afraid that tomorrow we'll be able to say something similar: 'The Communists of the Soviet Union rob you of al most all your freedom. The Italian Communists promise to leave you all of it, but in reality...
...Israeli attack was in retaliation for a terrorist assault on an El Al flight crew in London a day earlier. In that incident a stewardess was killed, and two other members of the crew and seven bystanders were wounded. The Israelis criticized the British for having failed to provide El Al air crews with proper security. The British do not permit Israeli security guards to carry firearms on their soil, but after the London attack they assigned armed guards to escort the airline's personnel...
Yasser Arafat, whose Al-Fatah commandos last month provoked the latest round of internecine bloodshed by attacking rival guerrilla organizations in several cities, has been desperately trying to redirect the fraternal rage. In an attempt to reconcile the warring factions, he called for the creation of a unified "armed forces of the Palestinian movement" that would join the commandos in a new assault on Israel...