Word: bac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michigan last week, Governor William Milliken was suggesting a more pointed alternative to President Ford's WIN button campaign. His version: BAC, for "Buy a Car." In a juxtaposition of imperatives that verged on contradiction, some Chrysler dealers were distributing bumper stickers proclaiming: WHIP INFLATION NOW. BUY A CAR. Top auto industry executives were pitching in with efforts of their own. Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend declared "a new car is the best buy you can get in America today." Outgoing General Motors Chairman Richard Gerstenberg, in a signed newspaper advertisement, once again made clear that what was good...
...conflict began when South Viet Nam's Foreign Minister Vuong Van Bac accused China of landing military personnel and civilians and raising its flag on Duncan Island in the Paracels. Bac declared that the Chinese action was "a sudden challenge" to South Viet Nam's sovereignty over the islands, and pointed out that Saigon has maintained a meteorological station on neighboring Pattie Island for decades. The South Vietnamese government ordered two of its 2,800-ton coastal cutters and four smaller ships to the Paracels to shadow a Chinese flotilla of seven ships including Komar-class gunboats equipped...
Scrupulous Neutral. Meanwhile, South Vietnamese Foreign Minister Vuong Van Bac visited Saudi Arabia to remind King Faisal that on Middle East issues the Thieu government has been scrupulously neutral. The point was well taken, and South Viet Nam was certified as a customer. The Vietnamese would have to do their own contracting for the oil, but the U.S. could continue to pay for it at the higher prices. U.S. officials estimate that 10% of this year's $813 million in military aid for Viet Nam will flow into fuel...
...Jeremiah, which she had never read before. The text said: "And they shall come again from the land of the enemy." If Hagerman does not appear during the 60-day release period, his wife is thinking of getting a visa and, armed with his photograph, questioning the people around Bac Ninh, where Hagerman's F-105 went down...
...estimated 90% of the population of the states is illiterate, and women remain in purdah behind grilled windows. But Gulf Aviation's frequent BAC-111 jet flights now link the wealthier states more closely than camels ever did. At the bars in the vast airport terminals, Arab entrepreneurs in long robes sip Scotch to the piped-in music of Ray Charles; porters pause during prayer hours to kneel on the floor facing Mecca...