Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sinai, the Egyptians, with 500 tanks, held onto the entire 103-mile length of the east bank of the Suez Canal. They seemed content for the moment to remain under the sheltering umbrella of Soviet-supplied ground-to-air missiles and artillery, taunting the Israelis to try to dislodge them from their defensive position. The mere fact that they had taken the eastern bank and the Israelis had been unable to push them back across the canal was in itself a significant military achievement...
...Israel was a status quo country, content with its position," he said. Safran said that the longer the stalemate continued, the better off Israel's position became. "The Arabs had run out of all their options except war," he said...
...political activism and rapid change which swept into Harvard in the wake of the strike. King claims that "recent experience with Harvard students in a nonresearch capacity" leads him to believe that "the contrast between our subjects and students of the present day is one primarily of form or content, not of process." The strike was a crisis for many students and King has missed out on data which could prove crucial to his argument...
...only 49, less than 49. This year, it probably will not go higher than 47.4; but in real value, after the devaluation of the dollar, this average will be, at most, 45. And our cost of production--despite that fact that our mines have a high mineral content and are close to the ocean for easy transport--is around 45 cents in some of them; it is, of course, higher in the small and medium mines due to inferior production technology...
...Executive Committee of CHUL yesterday unanimously approved the placement of NAM's request on the agenda for next Wednesday's committee meeting, David L. Johnston '74, the CHUL representative from Adams House, said yesterday. The Executive Committee reviews the order and content of the agenda, he said...