Word: barriere
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...largely as a result of Watergate-is now the supreme architect of American foreign policy. He is the one figure of stature remaining in the rums and the devastation of Richard Nixon's stricken Administration. He may be, because of his prestige on Capitol Hill, the largest single barrier separating Nixon from impeachment (see following story). Even the Russians seem to consider him now more important than the President. When Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin called on Vice President Gerald Ford last week, what he really wanted to know was not whether a Ford Ad ministration, if it comes about...
...Simpson bulldozed his way through the snow for 198 yards and crashed the 2,000-yard barrier, shattering a spate of National Football League records and powering the Buffalo Bills to a 34-14 victory over the New York Jets yesterday. Simpson carried 34 times against the helpless Jets, giving him a season total of 332 carries. Both his total yardage and total carries bettered records by Cleveland's former star fullback, Jim Brown...
...GOLAN HEIGHTS. The barren Golan Heights are useful only as a strategic barrier. Israel might retain a part of this disputed rocky terrain. A U.N. peace-keeping force, with similar guarantees against withdrawal, could keep the armies apart-and protect Israeli settlements from the Syrian guns that periodically fired on them before...
There is also talk of helping break the reading barrier for good, and perhaps reversing a trend that has seen the reading skills of American schoolchildren decline while reading consultants, advisers, textbooks and remedial reading courses proliferate. "A great thing about Me-Books," Me-Book Publisher Freeman Gosden Jr. told a lecture audience at the American Booksellers Association meetings this year, "is that one book can't be passed from child to child...
That, at least, is the way the Israelis told it. Syrian authorities insisted that the battle had been touched off when two Israeli Phantoms streaked into Syria from the direction of Lebanon and broke the sound barrier over the inland cities of Horns and Hama. As Syrian planes rose to meet them, the Phantoms headed toward the sea, strafing a Syrian village on the way out. Over the Mediterranean, other Israeli fighters pounced on the Syrian pursuit. In the dogfight that followed, Syria said that it had shot down five Israeli jets and lost eight...