Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israeli Knesset needed to shake its fist at the rest of the world in defiance and to fulfill some of its "nationalist needs" [Aug. 11]. Are the Jewish vote and money so important that Mr. Carter has chosen to sit idly by while the Israelis irresponsibly deteriorate the Camp David peace process...
...really need a threeyear, 13-agency, 800-page report from the President's Council on Environmental Quality [Aug. 4] to tell us that the number of malnourished will more than double by the year 2000? When will we pause from our counting and reporting on the hungry long enough to start feeding them...
...continue to take ex-Yippie Jerry Rubin with a grain of salt [Aug. 11]. His slogan of the '60s, "Never trust anyone over 30," still holds. Because Mr. Rubin has reached that ripe old age we can almost understand his transformation into a greedy capitalist...
Many people in the state of Washington would undoubtedly be happy to palm off Mount St. Helens on someone else [Aug. 11]. However, our mean-tempered volcano has not yet propelled itself across the Columbia River into Oregon...
Jobless and homeless in a strange country, some of the disillusioned Cuban refugees not only talk of wanting to go back home, a few have been driven to desperate measures. Two weeks ago, Cubans seized six airliners, three on Aug. 16 alone, and forced the pilots to fly to Havana; the skyjackings set records for the most in one week and the most in a single day. Stern security measures, augmented by reports that Fidel Castro has thrown the successful skyjackers into Cuban jails, appeared to be taking effect, however: there were no new skyjackings last week...