Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holiday in years. For millions of citizens penned at home by exasperating gasoline shortages, the only celebration will be a backyard barbecue?if the sporadic strikes by independent truckers protesting the scarcity and soaring price of diesel fuel do not cause new shortages at the supermarkets. Gas lines in Eastern cities are getting longer, despite the spread of odd-even sales restrictions, and the Tokyo agreement to limit petroleum imports obviously will do nothing to shorten them, since it is a scarcity of imported crude to refine that caused the lines in the first place...
None of the officials--Stephen J. Browne, vice president; Alan M. Cody, vice president and head of the Eastern region; William F. Kassner, vice president for financial marketing; and Robert W. West, vice president for marketing--were available for comment yesterday...
Among the more candid Russians who came along, the worries drifted to the surface in their private talk. Brezhnev had flown over Eastern Europe, and the tremors from Pope John Paul II's visit were still in the air. The Soviet economy was in stress, nationalities more assertive. The old men seemed to have only one answer: more missiles, more tanks...
...when 111 people were killed in a sectarian clash between the generally right-wing Sunni Muslims and the often left-leaning Shi'ite Muslims. An ardent civil libertarian, Ecevit reluctantly imposed martial law in 13 of Turkey's 67 provinces. Martial law was later extended to six eastern provinces to head off potential Kurdish unrest stimulated by the revolution in Iran...
Although comparisons at this time with Tut's treasure are surely exaggerated, there is no denying that the excavation will yield important information on a particularly puzzling gap in the murky past of one of the crossroad regions of the world, a melting pot of ancient Mediterranean and Eastern cultures. Says Archaeologist Viktor I. Sarianidi, leader of the research team: "These discoveries fill that gap and we learn that there was no break in the development of the culture...