Word: extends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other developments, Communist China said today it has agreed to extend additional economic and military assistance to North Vietnam this year to help defeat the United States and its allies in Indochina...
...made 68 recommendations for reform, which are now under consideration for approval. That is not true of Wyoming, which ranks 49th and seems unconcerned. Its legislature is allowed to meet only 40 days (including Sundays and holidays) every other year and does not even have the power to extend its session if business is incomplete. It is forbidden to take any action between sessions; it cannot even conduct studies. Not one employee is engaged in research to help members understand pending legislation. The Wyoming legislators earn only $1,640 for the two years (although the pay per day is high...
...week's end, three separate operations had unfolded. In the coastal provinces on the Gulf of Siam, ARVN (for Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops prepared to slice into new infiltration routes that the Communists had been trying to extend from the Cambodian seaport of Kep into the southern part of South Viet Nam. Northwest of Saigon in Tay Ninh province, 18,000 ARVN armored cavalrymen surged over the border into the Parrot's Beak and the Fishhook. Both sanctuaries were cleared out last spring, but now Communist troops were beginning to drift back...
...help get Sadat off that wobbly limb, U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers sent three notes to Cairo within the past two weeks, promising U.S. help in future negotiations if Egypt would extend the ceasefire. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, stretching the facts, told the Security Council that "some progress" had occurred in a series of talks conducted by U.N. Mediator Gunnar Jarring, giving Thant "grounds for cautious optimism." That also gave Sadat grounds to extend the ceasefire...
...nations that hold the key to peace-Israel, Egypt and Jordan-are still far from harmony as their second 90-day cease-fire expires this week. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and his advisers were to meet early in the week to decide whether or not to extend the truce formally, and if so, for how long. Meanwhile, Sadat's soldiers have been training with rubber dinghies along the canal, in clear sight of the Israelis, and air raid drills were staged in Cairo. The Israelis also went out of their way to show that they are prepared...