Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jordan, who was born in Houston, Tex., in 1936, has backed legislation aimed at raising the living standard of and increasing opportunities for impoverished Americans, and vigorously supported efforts to extend aid to the elderly and disabled throughout her career...
...effort to extend its appeal to new social groups, the University Center for Continuing Education began a program this spring for retired people, and expanded its half-summer course offerings. But how much will Harvard make...
...weeks, Rhodesia's Supreme Military Commander, Lieut. General Peter Walls, had been receiving intelligence reports of a guerrilla force building up in southwestern Mozambique. Faced with a security problem that would further extend his hard-pressed troops, Walls asked Smith for permission to make a punitive raid on Mozambique's Gaza province, a key infiltration and supply route. Smith readily gave him the go-ahead. Last week the first columns of Rhodesian army trucks, carrying some 500 troops, rolled across the Mozambican border shortly after daybreak and headed toward the village of Mapai, 60 miles away. Overhead, Rhodesian...
Some anti-Likud Israelis were worried about the domestic policies of the new government. It will certainly be more favorable to private enterprise than another Labor regime would be, with its pronounced socialist policies, but secular Jews feared that the religious parties might try to extend the influence of Orthodox rabbis over Israeli life?for example, by making Torah lessons compulsory in schools...
...dotted with 3,049 Greek islands, some of which are only a few miles from Turkey's shores. Two years ago, the U.S. was able to mediate successfully between the two NATO partners when they approached the brink of war in a territorial dispute. Greece hinted it might extend territorial waters from six to twelve miles around each island; the Turks warned Washington that that would be a fighting matter, and the Greeks dropped the idea. With both sides now so angry, the U.S. may not be able to mediate a new feud over oil and air rights...