Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last Tuesday the discussion went differently. Dean Rosovsky, the Faculty Council and members of most of the science departments backed the proposal to move the College starting date up a week, bringing the different schools into closer alignment...
When the police entered Qoboza's home--the police told reporters that the raid took place around 5 a.m., but Qoboza's wife Anne claimed that the time was closer to 3:30 a.m.--they searched his house for books banned from the country by the South African government...
...another "great" day eight years ago, Peru's leftist military junta took power. Shortly after this change came agrarian reform, closer Peruvian links with the Soviet Union, and the expropriation of U.S. copper and oil interests. The drop in food production after the land reform, however, sent high prices even higher, threatening the popularity of the government. As a result Juan Velasco, "the father of the Peruvian revolution," was replaced in 1975 by the less socialistic Francisco Morales. The Morales government tilts toward the center, encouraging foreign investment in Peru with better terms and repayment for expropriated holdings. Perhaps this...
...Vance was involved in promoting the United Negro College Fund. Over the years, Carter consulted with Vance on various matters, and the two developed a liking for each other. In 1973 they both became members of the Trilateral Commission, an organization sponsored by David Rockefeller that seeks to promote closer ties among the countries of Western Europe, North America and Japan...
REDEPLOYMENT. U.S., British and West German units would be in better positions closer to the front. Large units of the American forces that are now concentrated in southern Germany could be shifted to reinforce the British Army of the Rhine in the more vulnerable north. But any troop shift must overcome formidable civilian obstacles, ranging from lengthy litigation to buy land to the outraged cries of conservationists. The U.S. is soon to assign a 3,800-man brigade to the Bremerhaven area; the negotiations for the base's lease took two years...