Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deteriorating state of mind. The disease. The ulcers. When elderly people get those tax bills on their meager homes that demand another $1,500 a year, they get a cloud over their heads. Many of them give up the spirit and quietly die. One woman had a heart attack in front of me back in 1962 right in the assessor's office. That means something to me. Even the Russians don't do that, run people out of their homes for no reason. It is a goddamned crime. It is grand-felony theft...
...money," recalls Jarvis. Nonetheless, he went on to make considerably more, first with an Oakland chemical firm and then after World War II, by running a chain of home-appliance factories employing 13,000 people. In 1962, fearing that the pressure would give him a heart attack (his second wife died of a heart attack), Jarvis decided to retire and planned an extended vacation...
Those same locusts that plagued ancient Egypt and the Israelites -known to science as Schistocerca gregaria forsk-were back again. This time, the country under attack was Ethiopia. Last week agriculture experts reported that sections of the country's northern provinces were being devastated by 33 separate locust swarms, ranging in size from 5 to 40 sq. mi. Neighboring Somalia, meanwhile, reported 17 giant swarms of the buzzing, shell-covered creatures, which can sweep 100 sq. mi. of farm land clean overnight. Jean Roy, an expert in locust control operations for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization...
...French have explained to their allies that they are anxious to withdraw the legionnaires because they think the problem should be solved by African and Western countries working together. In fact, they are also a little nervous about being caught in Zaïre in the event of another rebel attack. In addition to Morocco, at least two black African states, Senegal and the Ivory Coast, seem prepared to send some troops into Zaïre. Morocco's King Hassan II, helped save Mobutu in 1977 by sending a detachment during a previous rebel assault on Shaba. After a visit by Mobutu...
DIED. James Browning Allen, 65, Alabama's junior Senator and a wily parliamentarian who recently helped lead Senate opposition to the Panama Canal treaties; of a heart attack; in Foley, Ala. After rising in state politics to become George Wallace's hand-picked Lieutenant Governor, Allen fought his way past other conservative Alabama Democrats to win a Senate seat in 1968. Proving himself a wizard of the Senate rule book, he proceeded to confound his Northern colleagues by calling for a jumble of motions, resolutions and postponements on key issues that usually wrung concessions for his vocal Southern...