Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...safe abortions in the U.S.; it accounts for nearly a third of the 1 million or so operations performed annually. The court's ruling is already being hailed as a great victory for the forces determined to move Medicaid out of the abortion business. It removes any constitutional cloud over the decision of 15 states to deny payment to Medicaid patients for nontherapeutic abortions. These states are now free to cut off all nontherapeutic Medicaid abortions...
...Israel (see box). One of them is making a spectacular political comeback. As Defense Minister during the October War, Moshe Dayan was widely blamed for the military's lack of preparedness. Although officially cleared of blame by an investigative commission, he has still lived under something of a cloud of reproach. Washington was reasonably content with the appointment of Dayan, who gave up his membership in the Labor Party to join the coalition. The one-eyed hero of the 1956 Sinai campaign is regarded as a tough but imaginative negotiator. There is less enthusiasm for the new Defense Minister...
Ecevit was clearly not about to seek that kind of accommodation with Demirel on his own. He is a poet-warrior who studied social psychology and Middle Eastern history at Harvard and wrote the words to his own campaign song, Harmony (sample verse: "Cloud to the sky, rain to the cloud, soil to the rain, how well in harmony"). After a huge celebratory party at the R.P.P.'s yellow stucco headquarters on Ankara's Farabi Street (once home of the Turkish intelligence agency), he plunged into talks to see whether he could form an effective government. His goal...
...Reports Cloud: "Rosalynn Carter has shown herself to be intelligent, tough and understanding, and her trip clearly has been worthwhile. But follow-through will be necessary if the benefits are to be anything more than temporary. At almost every stop, Mrs. Carter was given an invitation for the President to visit soon. There seemed to be a message in that: 'We like and are impressed with your wife, Mr. President. She has made a good start. Now it is time to negotiate seriously...
...point as if it were a burden-which, to Germans especially, it undoubtedly is. Jacob's only reprieve is in his imagination. He tells his niece a fairy tale about a commoner who cures a princess's illness by bringing her what she thinks is a cloud-a pillow-sized mass of cotton (an analogy, perhaps, to Jacob's trying to cure his neighbors by bringing them what they think is hope). The implication, indeed, is that these colorful visions persist amid the gray rubble of the ghetto just as the human spirit persists amid intolerance...