Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard will put its 2-3 record on the line Wednesday against Springfield in Springfield, Mass. In Their final encounter before the Christmas break, they will confront East Connecticut State at the IAB Friday...
...racquetmen bring their show home this Friday when they will attack Army at Hemenway Gym. In their next match they will confront Williams here on January...
Whoever follows will lead a fairly healthy nation, but he will confront serious problems as well. Boumedienne used oil revenues and international loans to build a modern society and revive the flagging Arab culture he had come from. A socialist and revolutionary ideologue who turned to Moscow for military assistance, the pragmatic Boumedienne also looked west for markets and technology. The U.S. has become Algeria's principal trading partner, buying oil and, more important, natural gas, while providing factories for consumer goods and training to teach Algerians to run the new facilities...
DEFENSE. China's military force is hardly a match for the Soviet Union's 43 divisions and 100,000 crack KGB troops that confront the Chinese along a 4,500-mile frontier. China's air force relies on the aging MiG-21 as its front-line interceptor and on the ancient TU-16 and the Il-28 as its penetration bombers; its nuclear warheads are mounted on intermediate missiles with a range of no more than 4,000 miles. Its navy, though the world's third largest, is equally antiquated: its two nuclear-powered submarines carry...
...think any Arab would dare do this because he would confront personal harassment without any benefits at this moment. The man who would do this would risk his life. I don't think the Arabs in Jerusalem will dare do something for which they don't get approval at least from countries like Jordan or Egypt...