Word: compound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More serious was an Israeli intrusion into the compound of the Soviet embassy in West Beirut. According to a Soviet diplomat, several Israelis entered the compound Wednesday evening, demanding to know if there were any terrorists inside. Said the Soviet diplomat: "We told them this is an embassy; we have diplomats here, not terrorists." He said the Israelis left Friday, after Western reporters arrived to question their presence. "They were afraid of journalists," the Soviet official added. An Israeli military spokesman claimed that several Israeli soldiers had simply taken cover behind the wall surrounding the embassy compound. But independent sources...
...comparison with NASA, SSI is a relaxed, unpretentious operation. "Mission control" consists of a few mobile homes, and Hannah's wife picks up litter around the compound. Last week's rocket watchers, snacking on shrimp, seemed like typical Texas partygoers. Indeed, said one cheery NASA alumnus, champagne glass in hand...
...Reich has yet written, Tehillim (the name means psalms or praises in Hebrew) is in four movements and reflects its composer's interest in cantillation, or chanting of the Scriptures. The music has a strong Middle Eastern flavor with its crisp, jagged rhythms and exotic melodic turns, which compound and pile up on one another until the piece explodes in an irresistible shout of triumph. In Tehillim Reich has added an ecstatic element to his musical vocabulary, and his work has become more poignant and expressive than ever before. The maturing of minimal music sounds in every note...
...sheer force of arms, the Jaruzelski government must also win the cooperation of the nation to halt Poland's continuing economic decline. According to government statistics, industrial production in the first seven months of this year was 7.3% lower than in the same period last year. To compound the problem, early indications that agricultural production would improve this year have been thrown off by a long dry spell. The potato and sugar-beet harvest may be 25% smaller than in 1981. This can only put further strains on weary Polish consumers, who already find it difficult to make ends...
...thanks to an important new drug called cyclosporine, the heart transplant may become the more nearly routine operation doctors once envisioned. Developed by the Swiss firm Sandoz Ltd., cyclosporine is a natural fungal compound that somehow blocks the production of those white cells that cause rejection but not those that fight infection. Says Dr. Barry Kahan, head of the organ-transplant division of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and a colleague of Cooley's: "This is the secret ingredient, the thing that unlocks the door to transplants...