Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than $250 million in hard currency, President Gamal Abdel Nasser was recently forced to sell off a third of Egypt's gold, leaving his country with a dangerously low hard-currency reserve of $108 million. Nasser has also been desperately trying to get his creditors to extend repayment deadlines...
Hopeful of a breakthrough, Wilson, who maintained almost constant contact with Washington during Kosygin's visit, urged Lyndon Johnson to extend the U.S. bombing pause beyond the truce deadline so that Hanoi could weigh the Russian proposal. Johnson agreed. At one point, Kosygin asked the British if they could get either Johnson or Secretary of State Dean Rusk to the conference table. The U.S. reply was delivered to British Foreign Minister George Brown during Queen Elizabeth's dinner for Kosygin at Buckingham Palace. Brown scanned the answer, then scrawled a note and passed it to Kosygin...
...blunter response was offered by Conservative William F. Buckley Jr., on a visit to Saigon, when asked whether the U.S. should extend the Tet truce...
...Harvard wrestling team squeezed past Rutgers, 19-17, last night to extend its winning streak against the East's strong teams. The Crimson matmen had knocked off Cornell and then Penn in their last matches almost a month...
...letter prolonged drafting sessions, which began on Saturday afternoon at Dunbarton College in Washington and lasted late into Sunday night. The delay forced them to shift the delivery date from Sunday to Monday--from a slow news day to a very heavy one. Although they attempted to extend coverage by holding a general press conference, they were swamped by the Monday wave of Washington news...