Word: easts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HAIFA, Israel--Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said Sunday that the Big Four talks to promote an Arab-Israeli settlement grew out of "a fiction that the Middle East is burning...
...most cities east of the Mississippi that are old enough to have run-down slums, doctors have long thought they had correctly estimated the annual incidence of lead poisoning in children. New York City has had an average of about 600 cases a year reported for the past decade. Baltimore has averaged 25, Cleveland 50, Chicago 155. But at a conference held last week at Manhattan's Rockefeller University, researchers suggested that these figures are gross underestimates. New York City may have as many as 30,000 cases, and the total for the U.S. may run as high...
...Saturday March 22, Paul Georgiou emerged nude from a Cadillac limousine in front of the East Village's Free Store Theater. The chauffeur displayed icy aplomb but a policeman blinked. Shortly thereafter, Georgiou was onstage in the same costume playing the President of the U.S. The instantly notorious theatrical enterprise involved is known...
...Annunciation, a double-decked, $2,000,000 building of dressed white Nazareth limestone that took 15 years to plan and build. Paid for by worldwide donations and built under the supervision of the Franciscan fathers, the new basilica is the largest Christian house of worship in the Middle East (capacity 3,000). Reflecting the long history of the sacred site, its lower church incorporates pillars, walls and an altar from several buildings-a 5th century Byzantine church, a 13th century Crusader basilica and an 18th century Franciscan church-that previously stood on the site. Despite the impressive work of Italian...
Abductions Inc. The Soviet Union and East Germany specialized in political kidnaping. Otto John, head of Germany's BFV-a counterespionage organization devoted to maintaining political order in West Germany-was either kidnaped or "defected" to East Germany in 1954. Walter Linse, head of Germany's League of Free Jurists (UFJ)-one of the "main instruments of Western propaganda policy, guiding and directing anti-Soviet forces in East Germany"-was abducted in front of a witness in 1952. By 1959, Hagen says, recording an astonishing statistic, "there had been 255 abductions and 340 attempted abductions in West Berlin...