Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formula, as U.S. diplomats read it, is still sound. It demands that Israel give up some or most of its occupied territories, that Arabs respect Israel's legitimacy and frontiers; that Israel be able to count on the ability of the Arab governments to live up to agreements, as well as on the commitment of the U.S. to guarantee them. Israel must also be able to believe that Russia will no longer connive with Arabs in a way that endangers Israeli security. What happened in Jordan and along the Suez makes such trust more difficult than ever to establish...
Early Lessons. Throughout, his pitch was conciliation and moderation. "We see democracy at work," he said at his victory celebration. "We see the American system at work. This gives a message to students, the alienated, the intellectuals and the liberals across the country." The ballot count was also a message to his Republican opponent, Incumbent Fletcher Thompson. In the primary runoff, Young's appeal was broad enough to attract as many votes as Thompson, an archconservative, polled when he won the seat...
...last count in May, unemployment among the nation's 1,100,000 engineers had leaped to 29,000, from only 4,000 in 1969. Since May, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (A.I.A.A.) estimates, 16,000 advanced engineers and scientists have been laid off in aerospace alone. Layoffs in the ordnance and instrument industries, and at campus research labs doing military work, add to the trouble...
...time for nostalgia for many-or, rather, anti-nostalgia. It does seem hard to remember things anymore. Like the contents of the books we dutifully place on our shelves, the number of pass-fail courses we can count towards our majors, which drugs we have taken (and when, and why), which people we hate and which people we love...
...April, Black Militant Victor Gordon told the audience-students, local citizens, law-enforcement officials-that most Americans are too inhibited to utter the familiar earthy phrase that is a blunt description of a form of incest. Gordon invited the audience to join him in shouting the term at the count of three. With seemingly infantile glee, numerous people shouted away...