Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have suffered long enough, and it is time that the people of the world realize this. Support for the Israelis is fine as long as they agree to meet with the P.L.O. The Rev. Jesse Jackson [Oct. 8] and the other black leaders of the U.S. have taken a big step in achieving real lasting peace in the Middle East by meeting with the leaders of the P.L.O. and the other Arab countries involved...
...oversee elections without Patriotic Front participation. That course would not only have angered the front-line and Commonwealth states, it could also have provoked an escalation of the war and possible intervention by Communist bloc countries and South Africa. But by facing down the guerrillas last week, Carrington won big on a high-stakes gamble...
Protests at home and a price revolt in OPEC as Saudi power wanes In Concord, N.H, it took the form of an automobile "honkin" outside Jimmy Carter's re-election campaign office. In Nashville, a 500-lb. pig with BIG OIL painted on its side was led to city hall to munch slops from a dish labeled AMERICAN WEALTH. In Washington D.C., elderly citizens bused in to join a picket line outside the American Petroleum Institute...
...more than 100 cities and towns in 35 states last week, hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of demonstrators joined in the biggest protest ever against what the country is targeting as "Big Oil." They voiced fears of a winter of low temperatures and high fuel costs, passed out "Big Oil Discredit Cards" and waved banners declaring, "I don't want to freeze in the dark." For most, the principal peeve was not gasoline prices or petroleum industry profits but the 60% rise in the cost of heating oil in the past 2½ years...
...Big Three Championships...