Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Built last spring, this housing project in Milan, Italy, was originally set up for private families who could afford to pay the rents in this rather well-to-do part of the city. But just before construction of the block of apartments was completed, the Italian Communist Party moved 1500 homeless people from as far south as Calabria and Sicily into the building...
...Smith, 57, does not easily change his mind. The eleven-year history of renegade white rule in Rhodesia stands as testament to his stubbornness. It was the jut-jawed Smith who, in 1965, led the self-governing British colony into making a unilateral declaration of independence in order to block London's intention of bringing about black majority rule. In the years that followed, Smith led white Rhodesia's dukes-up resistance to international pressure for change. But it was Smith, too, who finally agreed to accept reality. His epochal meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
...favored to win games One and Four. Jim Lonborg has been there before, but the Reds should jump on Philadelphia's third starter -- Jim Kaat, Tom Underwood or Larry Christenson. For the Reds, lefty fireballer Don Gullett is allegedly in top form; but the Schmidt-Luzinski-Allen power block loves southpaw fastball pitchers. Rookie Pat Zachry (2.74 ERA), Fred Norman and Gary Nolan are all solid. Give the edge to Philadelphia here...
Michael Curtin, one of the arrested students said he believes "some students would like to have seen us run over by the truck" the protesters tried to block before their arrest...
...days, we were told, 5% of the population owned all of Tibet's land and 70% of its livestock. Roughly 1 million Tibetans-or more than half the total population, now 1.7 million-were serfs. We were shown a block-long exhibit of primitive torture instruments, knives, whips, chains and an iron pot in which the hands of serfs were boiled. Secretary Schlesinger was also shown a picture of Broadcaster Lowell Thomas, who visited Tibet in 1949. The country's rulers consider Thomas an "American imperialist" because he sought, on behalf of the Dalai Lama, to obtain...