Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems and 5%, or one out of every 20, are homebound. About a third of all aged Americans are also plagued by poverty. Despite pensions, savings and Social Security, which will disburse $72 billion to 33.5 million recipients this year, fully 4.75 million of the nation's aged exist on less than $2,000 a year-well below the Federal Government's poverty line...
...wake of a controversy over a new book that was banned by the military censor on orders from Premier Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin not only ordered suppression of the book, which was written by Newsman Matti Golan, 38, but also the seizure of all five manuscript copies known to exist. Rabin's explanation was that publication of the book would be disastrous for Israeli-American relations, would threaten the flow of American arms to Israel and might even force Kissinger's resignation...
...been opposed to price agreements on two grounds: 1) like cartels, they often aim to keep prices artificially high; 2) they do not work anyway-supply and demand reality has usually overwhelmed the terms of the deals. But two models do exist...
Magic Power. In their foreign policy, the Iraqi Baathists spearheaded the Arab "rejection front" against Israel, refusing to accept even United Nations' peace resolutions on the Middle East, much less the Jewish state's right to exist. Iraq consistently championed extremists within the Palestine Liberation Organization and also threatened Kuwait, claiming at one point that the tiny nearby sheikdom was historically part of Iraq. Armed by the Soviets, Baghdad's rulers quarreled with Iran not only over borders, but also over the minority of 2 million non-Arab Iraqi Kurds. When Tehran backed the Kurds' demands...
Principles established at the end of World War II--that war crimes exist and people can be held accountable for them--are still valid, but the United States government is in no position to put them into practice. For the government to screen out "undesirables" is more like Nazi Germany managing to survive the war and then denying refuge to Quisling or Laval on the grounds that they were undemocratic. If principles established after World War II were used today, justice for war crimes in Vietnam and Cambodia would be administered by the victorious governments in those countries...