Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both the White House and the Kremlin, to any Senate suggestions for amendments. Early last week in Moscow, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko took the unusual step of calling a press conference and declared that any changes in the treaty would be fatal. Said Gromyko: "It would be the end of negotiations. It would be impossible, whatever amendments might be added." Western diplomats were struck by the toughness of Gromyko's language, which underscored the position taken by Leonid Brezhnev at the Vienna summit...
...Malaysians presumably were also trying to shock the West into belated recognition of a human tragedy that has global dimensions. In Southeast Asia today, there are perhaps 360,000 Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian refugees, and the total could easily double by the end of the year. In the midst of their squabbling over what to do about the energy crisis, leaders of the seven industrial democracies at the Tokyo summit issued a joint pledge to provide more aid to the refugees. President Carter announced that the U.S. would double, to 14,000 a month, the number of Indo-chinese refugees...
...horrifying though their plight may be, the boat people represent only a fraction of the world's unwanted exiles. Indeed, the age has been called "a century of refugees," because wars and political upheavals and natural disasters like famine and flood have made so many homeless. At the end of World War II, there were 40 million refugees in Europe alone; perhaps the most pitiable were the Jewish survivors of Hitler's Holocaust. At the time of the partition of British India, in 1947, 15 million were dispossessed. In 1950, 5 million North Koreans fled to the South...
Somoza recaptures Managua, but the end of his era seems near...
...week's end, the capital was back under Somoza's control, but he faced a prolonged struggle in the countryside. To the list of towns captured by the rebels were added the names of Masaya, Somotillo and Guasaule. In the south, a rebel column continued its pressure on Rivas (pop. 26,000), where the temporary government set up two weeks ago by the Sandinistas and their allies hopes to establish its capital. Said a dispirited national guard officer: "The rebels are like mosquitoes. We can never get rid of them...