Word: attends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seizing 45,000 sq. mi. of Chadian territory. Ethiopia charged that it was the victim of a "coordinated conspiracy" of aggression led by Somalia and Sudan. Somalia countered that Ethiopia was in fact an aggressor guilty of "black colonialism," "murder" and "massacres." Benin did not even bother to attend the summit because it blames Gabon for last January's attempted coup against Benin President Mathieu Kerekou. Hoping to cool tempers, Nigeria's head of state, Lieut. General Olusegun Obasanjo, observed that "intra-African quarrels now constitute a real threat to peace and harmony in our continent...
...hero in two nations-was long and slow, tempered by illness and early poverty. On Oct. 1, 1945, Olga Carew knew her baby was due and started the journey by train from Gatun, on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone, to Gamboa, where doctors in the clinic could attend the child's birth. But the baby would not wait, so Margaret Allen, a nurse, and Dr. Rodney Cline, a physician, both of whom happened to be aboard the train, delivered the woman's second son. The nurse became the child's godmother, the doctor forevermore...
...enactments here brutally coerce poor women to bear children whom society will scorn for every day of their lives. Many thousands of unwanted minority and mixed-race children now spend blighted lives in foster homes, orphanages and 'reform' schools. Many children of the poor will attend second-rate segregated schools. And opposition remains strong against increasing [federal] benefits for impoverished mothers and children to grow up in a decent environment. I am appalled at the ethical bankruptcy of those who preach a "right to life" that means, under present social policies, a bare existence in utter misery for so many...
...exhibition was backed by the weightiest cultural authorities in the Soviet Union. Diplomats, journalists, art experts and lovers of Soviet culture were all panting to attend. Yet when 200 invited guests turned up last week at Moscow's House of the Artist near the Kremlin, they found a 6-in. brass padlock on the door. Uniformed Soviet police turned back the crowd, while loudspeakers broadcast commands to clear the street...
Hailing themselves as "the silent majority," the demonstrators included blue-collar workers-utility employees, electricians, plumbers-and their families from throughout the Northeast. Some had spent up to twelve hours in chartered buses to attend the rally. They were greeted by New Hampshire's Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., who called them "beautiful" compared with "what I saw the first of May." The protest, organized by a pro-Seabrook group named the New Hampshire Voice of Energy, may be only the first in behalf of the facility. Vowed Daniel Tenchara, a 41-year-old pipefitter from Westport, Mass...