Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus, after two days of secret talks in this city, which such a short time ago was the target for American bombs and focus of bitter American dissent, the U.S. delegation succeeded in establishing what Woodcock called a "bridgehead" toward normal diplomatic relations. The next day, the Vietnamese provided more tangible evidence of the breakthrough by giving the delegation the bodies of twelve pilots-their names had been announced last September -for return to the U.S. In addition, the Vietnamese disclosed that they had found a 13th pilot's remains, and they said they would step up the search...
...stridently Marxist neighbor, the People's Republic of the Congo. There an unidentified group of men burst into National Popular Army staff headquarters and gunned down President Marien Ngouabi. A pudgy French-trained army major who survived several previous attempts on his life, Ngouabi, 38, was long a bitter enemy of Zaïre's Mobutu. His tiny (pop. 1.3 million), dirt-poor country has enjoyed Soviet patronage for years, and its airport served in 1975 as a convenient refueling point for Cuban troop planes bound to aid Angola's M.P.L.A. guerrillas. Ngouabi's killing-which...
...economic news last week resembled an early spring weather report: mostly bright sunshine, but with a chilly wind to serve as an unwelcome reminder of the bitter winter. The wind was inflation, which leaped to an annual rate of 12.7% in February as measured by the Consumer Price Index, even worse than the 10% pace of January. By far the biggest rise came in food prices, largely reflecting fruit and vegetable shortages caused by January's crop-killing cold. Though most economists expect the rate to fall in coming months-they think the underlying pace...
...factory where he has been employed for years. After learning that mass layoffs are going to cost him and hundreds of his mates their jobs, he kills a supervisor and then himself. The lesson that there are no such things as safe niches in the modern world is too bitter for him to absorb...
...said he is confident that the NLRB ruling in favor of the union will be upheld, but it will be a "long, bitter and expensive fight...