Word: doned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more interested in commerce than in aggressive politics. The Beirut government dutifully declared war against Israel during last year's Six-Day War-and sent two fighters on a sortie southward toward Tel Aviv. When one was shot down, Lebanon happily withdrew from the campaign, its duty done...
Haunted by those pictures of starving children, their eyes bulging, their bodies bloated or matchstick thin, most Americans ask indignantly: Why has the U.S. not done more to relieve such suffering? The answer, of course, is that starvation has been a calculated weapon in the civil war between federal Nigeria and secessionist Biafra. The Nigerians are fearful that arms will flow into Biafra under the cover of relief shipments and therefore insist that aid be shipped in under their supervision. The Biafrans reject such terms because they fear foul play by the federals. The U.S. has been distressed...
...inequities in French society. As the National Assembly's fall term came to an end, Pierre Lelong, a Gaullist Deputy from Brittany, complained, "I have to tell my voters what we have accomplished, but I don't know what to say. We haven't done anything...
Point of Honor. The company's research-and-development department never ceases. A Bangor Punta subsidiary, General Ordnance Equipment Corp., which has done very well with its highly profitable Mace, has another comer in a 25-lb. device that generates a billowing smoky haze called Pepper Fog. The $395 tubular generator can be slung and aimed from the shoulder, and it has cleared 400 rioting prisoners from a large building in 2½ minutes. The company, having sold what it had thought would be a full year's supply in four months, has lately increased production facilities fivefold...
...avoid that, Nixon's strategy is to cool the economy gradually, probably by concentrating more on monetary policy than the Democrats have done. He also aims to hold back federal spending on social programs by giving rather modest tax breaks and other incentives to private businessmen who hire and train the hard-core unemployed. Though many businessmen still doubt whether they can do more than dent the problem, the National Alliance of Businessmen this year got off to a good start by persuading 12,000 employers to hire 84,000 hard-core jobless people and to train many...