Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...documents was a Red Chinese officer's secret report smuggled out of China, presumably via Tibet, and released to TIME by the State Department. Sybil Wong, who with Shirley Monck did the bulk of the cover researching in New York, spent several days translating the secret report for Writer Robert McLaughlin...
Nervous Ne Win frequently carries a pistol, and antiaircraft guns stand ready at Government House. Yet, even though opposition to his regime is massive throughout the country, he still has the bulk of the army with him. And, as is his habit when he encounters obstacles, Ne Win changed course slightly. He temporarily rescinded controls on rice to placate farmers, offered to build a new Student Union at the University of Rangoon (he had blown up the old one after a student riot in July 1962), and called a conference of his administrators to "improve and review" all measures enacted...
Dark Mutterings. The case called attention to the fact that among South African whites who oppose Verwoerd's apartheid, perhaps the most zealous are Jews. The bulk of South Africa's 116,000 Jews tacitly condone apartheid, the Jewish Board of Deputies has always been careful not to attack it, and some of the wealthiest Jews contribute to Verwoerd's National Party. But to thousands of others, especially the younger, university-educated group, apartheid smells too much like Nazism. In the 1961 general election, Jews voted massively against the National Party, and the lone anti-apartheid crusader...
...wanted to get rid of her. At 14, she entered the Convent of Santa Margherita in the north Italian town of Monza, took the veil two years later. Her father, the Lord of Monza, not only managed to save the expense of a dowry but also pocketed the bulk of his daughter's personal fortune and was left free to range the world, fighting the Moors, the English and the Turks. Based on trial records opened only six years ago in the archives of Milan, this new book takes a fresh look at a drama that was lurid...
...world's maritime insurance. It sells some 2,000,000 policies a year in 150 countries and has 1,500 agents stationed the world over to follow the movements of every ship at sea, report on pilferage or disaster and settle claims. In recent years, the bulk of Lloyd's insurance has shifted from maritime policies toward aviation, accident, fire, burglary and motor insurance. Lloyd's now does half of its business overseas...