Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Africa. Perhaps the worst punishment was reserved for Egypt, which Castro had excoriated in his keynote speech for "betraying the Arab cause" by signing the Camp David accord. When Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali vainly sought to defend his government, he was met by a flood of invective from the other Arab delegations. Even Jordan's King Hussein joined with his old adversary, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, in lambasting Anwar Sadat's "unilateral dealing with Israel...
About 4700 undergraduates will flood Memorial Hall today to officially register for the last term of the 1970s...
...national commission on criminal justice recommended that plea bargaining be abolished by 1978. Today, it is still the method by which the vast majority of criminal cases are handled. It helps reduce the case load, but it also reflects the fact that the system cannot handle the flood of litigation. Says a Sandusky, Ohio, attorney, Thomas Murray Jr.: "When you talk about one case in 50 getting to trial, the system is not breaking down. It has broken down...
...President made one other side trip, helicoptering without advance notice across the border to English, Ind., where the Little Blue River had caused enough flood damage to qualify the area for federal disaster relief. Standing ankle deep in mud, Carter told some 40 grateful residents of the town: "I just wanted to see if everything is all right with you all and to let you know we'll have some help in here very shortly." Replied one enthusiastic woman: "You've restored our faith in Government...
...rediscovered an old means of communication to further his causes: direct mail. Viguerie circumvents the media with his two IBM computers and a treasure of mailing lists, including a 5,000-name "hit list" that can produce, almost overnight, $115,000 in contributions for conservative causes. He can flood a Senator, Representative or state Governor with 50,000 letters in a single delivery. Viguerie helped lead the heated battle against the Panama Canal Treaties, anathema to many middle-of-the-roaders?and lost narrowly. Now he is cranking up a major effort against the ratification of SALT II. Viguerie...