Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This time the disputed word was "inhabitants." The Egyptians wanted it omitted from a joint letter on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, to make it clear that autonomy for the two regions applied to the land and not just to its Palestinian inhabitants. The Israelis, who claim a biblical right to settle in what they call Judea and Samaria (ancient names for the West Bank), maintained that autonomy applies to the people, but not to the land they live on. Eventually the matter was settled by the drafting of one more supplementary letter, and the ceremony was allowed...
...regain economic momentum, says Oxford University Economist Michael Kaser, the Soviets will have to shift the planning emphasis from more factories and more workers to more efficient factories and more productivity per worker. Decentralizing the economy so that managers need not clear so many decisions with the sluggish Moscow bureaucracy will also be necessary. For the leaders of the rigid Soviet system, that kind of drastic reform will not be easy...
...British press has a tradition of quietly putting up with this and other restrictions on its freedom. But in 1972, the London Sunday Times ran out of patience. In a series of articles entitled "Our Thalidomide Children: A Cause for National Shame," the Sunday Times made it clear that Distillers had been miserly with the Thalidomide victims. The stories provoked public outrage and pressured Distillers to raise its original settlement offer sevenfold, from an average of about $25,000 per child to $175,000. The articles were clearly in contempt of court. But the Sunday Times managed to avoid fines...
Harvard community relations officials were unavailable yesterday to clear up the mystery...
...while the cruise missile gets built. The neutron bomb grabs the public attention, while outmoded long-range bombers are deployed. "The broad links from major military forces to policy goals, on the one hand, and to alternative levels of military spending, on the other hand, have not been made clear," the study group says...