Word: flare-ups
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After the worst flare-up of shooting across its placid waters since last October, the Suez Canal last week seemed more than ever a permanent casualty of the Arab-Israeli war. Even the brief hopes that 15 trapped freighters might finally be freed after eight months of captivity flickered rapidly...
Negroes' reaction to the convention is at this point far from certain. Chicago could be in for a massive explosion. There is, in at least one store window less than a mile from the convention hall, a dusty sign reading "Soul Brother," left over from a previous flare-up. Even...
Heroic Albanians. Whoever was responsible for the flare-up by the canal, it was obvious that it is going to be a painfully slow business to work out a settlement in the Middle East. Nor is the U.N. offering much practical help. After Soviet Russia weighed in with a draft...
Speed & Experience. Whereas Cincinnati's rioting was exacerbated by what Negroes considered harsh justice, the flare-up last week in Los Angeles' perennially explosive Watts area was extinguished by swift, steady police action. When a fire broke out in a military-surplus storage yard, it looked like the...
Ominous Ultimatum. No one knew whether Peking had actually instigated the initial flare-up, or whether it had been started by overzealous local Communists. Once the trouble began, however, Red China helped to keep it going. The British chargé d'affaires in Peking was summoned to the Foreign...