Word: givings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week U.S. Ambassador Joseph Palmer acceded to the wishes of Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, who demanded that the U.S. withdraw entirely from Wheelus airbase outside the city. The base was used for bombing and gunnery training for NATO-assigned U.S. fighter squadrons. In similar sessions, the British also agreed to give up smaller bases at Tobruk and El Adem...
...option except to give up a base whose lease would have expired in 1971 anyway. "The sky over Arab Libya," charged Colonel Gaddafi, "is being polluted by foreign planes." Whipping up popular sentiment against the American and British military presence, Gaddafi asserted that Libyans were being "terrified" by colonialist soldiers. Unless Britain and the U.S. agreed to give up their bases, he threatened to take them by force...
NASA's assumption was based on OAO-II's report of unexpectedly powerful ultraviolet radiation from half a dozen nearby galaxies. If this is true, NASA scientists reasoned, distant galaxies probably give off large amounts of the same invisible radiation. But those galaxies are receding from the earth (because of the expansion of the universe) at speeds that would cause ultraviolet light to shift toward the red end of the spectrum into visible frequencies. So the NASA men assumed the visible light from distant galaxies is intrinsically brighter than previously believed; therefore those galaxies must be farther away...
...Moltmann. What makes man's future so full of promise is not the modernist's idea of upward, evolutionary progress inherent in man but, quite simply, Christ's death and Resurrection. No matter whether the Resurrection is verifiable as a historical event; that "something" happened to give early Christians their immense hope is evidence enough. In addition, argues Moltmann, while the Resurrection may be "the sign of future hope," the cross itself-through Christ's sacrifice-means "hope to the-hopeless...
What made management sense to the U.N. did not conform to Asian values. Project members favored the imaginative and inspirational Schaaf. As for being palatable to the Communists, Schaaf says: "We want to produce irrigation and power for the people of the Mekong basin. We don't give a damn what their politics are." Representatives of the four nations refused to accept Umbricht, threatened to sever ties with the U.N. and hire their own man, an Asian from one of the Mekong countries. They finally approved William Van Der Oord, a U.N. official from The Netherlands-but only...