Word: differing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preventing further hostilities would be to remove the Greek and Turkish forces stationed on the island. Any clash between these troops could precipitate a war, and their presences on the island has certainly done little to protect the peace, British forces should also be withdraws, both because British interests differ significantly from Cypriote interests, and because Britain has consistently shown that it cannot solve Cyprus's problems. In fact the United Kingdom is partly responsible for the antagonism which divides the two Cypriote communities...
...Different sources differ on the details of the party, but the cutting of the sweater seems to have been the most disrupting incident...
Heavily concentrated in the upper Midwest, the Brethren are mostly German in national origin, differ in theology and polity from the Methodists only in small detail. Mueller, the son of an irnr migrant pastor, graduated from North Central College in Illinois, entered the ministry in 1921 after teaching high school in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He was made a bishop in 1954, and from the council's founding has been one of the guiding forces. He was its first recording secretary, and since 1957 has been a vice president and chairman of its Division of Christian Education. As a member...
...Continue." The President dealt first with U.S. foreign policy. "This nation will keep its commitments," he vowed, "from South Viet Nam to West Berlin. We will be unceasing in the search for peace, resourceful in our pursuit of areas of agreement, even with those with whom we differ, and generous and loyal to those who join with us in common cause." He pledged continuation of foreign aid to Asia, Africa and, through the Alliance for Progress, to Latin America - but he made no specific mention of controversial aid to countries in Eastern Europe...
Then for a while Jack turned organizer for the racketeer-infested Waste Material Handlers Union. Accounts differ. Some say he got out of line and was beaten by mobsters; others say the cops banged him over the head. In any event, his union career was short-lived. He was admitted to the Army Air Forces during World War II, served three inconspicuous years, came out a pfc. and returned to whatever buck-producing activity he could find. For a while he scalped tickets for sporting events, boxed for a short time under the name of "Sparkling Ruby." His friends still...