Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election June 15. As if to help him gain it, the French Communist Party took the unprecedented step of ordering its followers to abstain from the voting altogether. If every Communist voter hewed to the party line, Pompidou was already assured of a majority. No Frenchman expected it to end quite that neatly, but as the campaign entered its final week, Georges Pompidou seemed almost certain to become the next President of France...
...from Arab governments and private contributions-and enough recruits, and they seem determined to fight on regardless of consequences. As one of Al-Fatah's leaders said last week, "We are now living in a honeymoon with the other Arabs. We don't know when it will end, or who will stay with us. But it does not matter. We will keep fighting -and fight our fellow Arabs if necessary. If the Arabs try to stop us, we will simply go underground and continue fighting. We will not accept anything less than return to Palestine." In the Middle...
Although there have been suggestions that the mission be called off, Rockefeller seems determined to continue with the third installment of his tour-visits to Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay. By week's end Uruguay indicated that it, too, would like to cancel the visit but would prefer that the initiative come from Washington. The other three governments-all of them military regimes-are confident that they can welcome Rocky while keeping their militant activists in check. Even so, large U.S. Secret Service details were checking out local security conditions with the kind of minute attention to detail that...
...have had little solace since the decline of the Yankees began four years ago, a quiet hysteria was developing last week. Before their unbelieving eyes, the tanglefoot New York Mets were turning into a team of superlatives. As they beat San Diego 5 to 3, at week's end the Mets were riding an eight-game winning streak, longest in their eight-year history. Their 26th victory against only 23 losses raised their percentage to .531, their highest ever.* The streak also propelled the Mets into second place in the National League's Eastern Division, the first time...
...colleagues have just reported a refinement, in which small electrodes are implanted through the skin and left in place, so that the treatment can be repeated if pain recurs. Other neurosurgical procedures involve cutting the roots of nerves at the spine to relieve cancer pain in the lower end of the backbone, and cutting or chemically killing the trigeminal nerve in the face to halt the agonizing stabs of tic douloureux, the most agonizing form of neuralgia...