Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week that if the Middle East peace talks now taking place in Geneva do not produce results by mid-March, "don't be surprised if the pendulum swings all the way to a 30% reduction" in petroleum output. Most important of all, the latest astonishing price boosts will disrupt the economies of even those Western nations that find Arab oil freely available. By unilaterally hiking the price of crude for the first time, the Arabs not only declared their independence from the big oil companies that have set pricing policies for the past quarter-century but also gave...
...directly predicting doomsday ("Forty days," warns the group's leader "Moses David" Berg, and "Nineveh shall be destroyed!"). A different alarm is sounded by the Italian parapsychologist Astaroth, 52 (real name: Claudio Giannantonio), who counsels members of the Rome political and movie set. Astaroth explains that comets disrupt the "psychomagnet-ic equilibrium" of the planetary system. He adds: "Human beings will be drawn to commit acts of violence-not only singly but collectively." In McFarland, Wis., the self-proclaimed head of the Church of the Odd Infinitum, Edward Ben Elson, is selling tickets at $10 each for his intergalactic...
Cumings said that the picketing is not expected to disrupt the luncheon or discourage alumni from attending...
...built TU-16 jets of the Egyptian air force were bombing Israel's principal oil-producing wells-taken over from Egypt in the Six-Day War-at Abu Rudeis, farther down the Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian commando units were meanwhile dispatched to work their way behind Israeli lines and disrupt supply routes. They did it effectively. But as the battle went on, the Israelis returned the trick by sending nighttime commandos across the Gulf of Suez to swing round and hit the Egyptians in the same...
Ormes, who did not threaten to disrupt the program, met with the Law Forum's executive board Wednesday which agreed to cancel the debate...