Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Professor Stanley explores every facet of East Asian-American relations, from the beginning of the Opium War to the last call at the Hong Kong restaurant." Vonnegut said
Soon he was winging toward Egypt. He had asked to call on Jordan's King Hussein, but the King had begged off, explaining that the Shah's presence would create too much dissention. Saudi Arabia also rejected an overture from the Shah. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, however, agreed to receive him. The Shah and his entourage were met with all the trappings due a royal personage-a red carpet, a 21-gun salute, an embrace from Sadat-and were escorted to the Oberoi Hotel located on an island in the Nile near Aswan...
...forest. The frustrated sender of the plea was the commander of two Khmer Rouge infantry companies. He had been cut off in the forest by Vietnamese troops who had invaded Cambodia (Democratic Kampuchea). The broadcast was futile; Khmer commanders were too scattered and too harried to respond to the call. Like most other units in the estimated 73,000-man Communist Khmer Rouge force deployed to face the six-pronged Vietnamese attack, the isolated companies in the Mondolkiri forest had been outgunned and outmaneuvered...
...mainly on the issue of public funding of abortion, specifically the federal law that limits Medicaid payments for abortions to cases involving rape, incest or serious threats to the mother's life or health. Before the law was passed in 1977, 209 liberal Protestants and Jews issued a "Call to Concern" that not only urged Medicaid abortions for any reason but also charged that Catholic lobbying presented a "serious threat to religious liberty...
...play catch-up in Iran. The Shah himself has long been on the grand tour of editors, anchormen, roving correspondents. But after the New York Times closed down its bureau in February 1977, there wasn't one American reporter based in Tehran. The result has been what correspondents call "parachuting" into a place, arriving like firemen after a fire is visibly raging...