Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Disillusionment began only a month after Carter's inauguration, when, during Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's visit to the Middle East, the U.S. announced that it would bar sales to other countries of Israel's Kfir jets with American-built engines. The White House also canceled a shipment of concussion bombs promised to Israel by the Ford Administration. Vance came home convinced that the Arabs were more flexible than the Israelis, and he said so. In meetings with Middle East leaders, Carter got on famously with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, Jordan's King...
Farther up the block, on Mass Ave, you'll find the local Big Pink--the Hong Kong Restaurant, or simply "the Kong." Although the food found in the first floor violates Geneva convention provisions regarding biological warfare, the bar upstairs has wonderfully tacky decor, moderately-priced good drinks, and a jukebox featuring Frank Sinatra singing "My Way." Local high school toughs take over on weekends, but during the week, Dino DiLaurentiis is right--"People gonna love Kong...
Later, in letters that he wrote to his biographer William Bradford Huie, Ray claimed that he had merely followed directions from a man he had met in a Montreal bar after his escape from the Missouri prison. Ray claimed he knew the blond Latin stranger only as "Raoul." He told Huie that Raoul had asked him to smuggle unnamed contraband into the U.S. from both Canada and Mexico, then buy a car and a rifle in Birmingham, and finally to drive to Memphis and check into a sleazy rooming house facing the Lorraine Motel, where King was staying. Ray insisted...
...mistakenly concluded, in the absence of any great epidemics, that youngsters no longer need vaccinations against such menaces of the past as poliomyelitis. Nonetheless, there are signs of a reawakening to the measles danger. In Los Angeles, thousands of youngsters turned up for shots after school authorities threatened to bar them from classes without proof of inoculations. In New York, health officials used circus clowns to lure youngsters to vaccination centers. Such gimmickry has the full blessings of the Carter Administration, which has set as a goal the inoculation by the fall of 1979 of 90% of all American youngsters...
...moulder. All the obstacles to career change vanish. So, even more miraculously, do the impediments to romance. A reluctant Laura accompanies the husband she has previously vowed to leave to his new job in New York. Following her lead, Abbie and Harry, suddenly reconciled, march out of a bar with their arms around each other, leaving poor Max to bewail his fate...