Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...board and state officials were scrambling to put together an emergency loan package to keep the schools from collapsing. Shut out of the bond market in November because of a poor rating, the educational system faces a shortfall of $459 million by the end of the fiscal year on Aug. 31, 1980. It needs $190 million just to keep going through January...
Time magazine (Aug. 13, 1979) stated that these French groups are "proclaiming ominous theories on race, genetics and inequality rarely heard since the dark days of the Third Reich...New Right partisans hold that individuals and races are divided by insurmountable barriers of hereditary inequality; in support of this view, they cite the much debated research by such American scientists as Arthur Jensen, William Shockley and Edward O. Wilson." A report in the New York Times (Sept. 26, 1979) on the assassination of a French-Jewish leftist, remarked about the "emergence of a group of intellectuals calling themselves...
...show that the Administration, at least as of last summer, had been considering "the inevitable step" of allowing the Shah to enter the U.S. The first cable, which was sent by Henry Precht, director of the State Department's Office of Iranian Affairs to Laingen in Tehran on Aug. 2, proposed that sometime before January 1980 the U.S. should inform the Iranian government of the "intense pressures for the Shah to come here, pressures which we are resisting despite our traditional open-door policy...
...last seen on Aug. 2, walking on New York City's Fifth Avenue near his $500,000 apartment in the exclusive Pierre Hotel. Over the next ten weeks, his relatives and lawyers reported receiving letters-and even a photograph-that supposedly proved that he had been abducted by Italian leftist radicals. But police in the U.S. and Italy suspected that the missing man, Sicilian-born Financier Michele Sindona, 59, had arranged his own disappearance to avoid standing trial in New York on a 99-count indictment for bank fraud and in Milan on charges of swindling two banks...
Looking wan and haggard, he had a gash in his leg that he said was a bullet wound, and was dressed in the same gray business suit that he had been wearing on Aug. 2. Because Sindona was nearly incoherent from exhaustion, his physician immediately put him under sedation and whisked him to a $300-a-day room in fashionable Doctors Hospital...