Word: filtered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terrorism issue that caused the Cabinet split over withdrawal. Shamir and other Likud members argue that the possibility of P.L.O. attacks should remain a paramount concern in Jerusalem: a pullback without firm security guarantees from the Gemayel government will simply allow P.L.O. guerrillas to filter back into southern Lebanon. That, in Shamir's words, would amount to "abandoning the Galilee...
...November, and on Christmas Day attacked Rithysen, the biggest of eight Khmer Front guerrilla bases that dot the Kampuchean side of the border. The Christmas onslaught drove some 62,000 civilian refugees into Thailand; the threat to Ampil added 23,000 more. Many of the guerrillas are expected to filter back into Kampuchea, but the Vietnamese have made public statements indicating that they intend a permanent occupation of the border region, depriving the guerrillas of their comfortable zone of sanctuary. If the K.P.N.L.F. intends to fight on, it will probably have to abandon static defenses in favor of more classic...
...tight security did not, however, filter out all the hecklers, some of whom managed to display anti-Reagan banners throughout the speech...
...almost a cliche now: We are two superpowers poised to destroy each other. But can better-trained journalists, familiar with the language and prepared in academic programs, promote understanding among the common people? Will that understanding filter upwards to the arms-negotiators, the presidents and the premiers...
...Philadelphia Fertility Institute is testing a technique that employs the glass-column race track and Sephadex, a gelatinous powder used to filter impurities from insulin and other hormones. In this case, the X-bearing sperm are the first to reach the bottom of the test tube, perhaps because they are slightly heavier than Y sperm. Results in eleven pregnancies are encouraging: seven girls and one set of male-female twins. Nonetheless, a larger number of pregnancies will be needed before the method is proven...