Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grave Robbers...
Surveying the current scenes, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger discerned "a moment of potentially grave danger." For two years the U.S. public has been preoccupied with Watergate, the economy and other domestic problems. Beyond the Middle East, Americans paid little attention to what was happening overseas. Now, suddenly, they were forced to look to the troubled world outside and their own relationship with it. They saw that U.S. foreign policy was suffering setbacks on several key fronts...
...prostrated themselves on the ground. At length, the King's body was transported, with six of Faisal's brothers serving as pallbearers, to a graveyard on the outskirts of Riyadh where commoners as well as royalty are buried. The body was laid to rest in an unmarked grave not far from that of Faisal's fa ther, Ibn Saud, founder of the kingdom...
...WESTERN EUROPE, with which the U.S. has powerful economic, cultural and ethnic ties; if Western Europe were to fall under hostile control, it would pose a grave threat to American interests...
...Charges. In mid-1974 the EEC investigators showed Roche officials copies of confidential company documents that they were questioning. Adams insists that he turned no documents over to the EEC, but Roche officials suspected him and alerted Swiss police. Says a Roche spokesman: "There were grave suspicions against this former employee." Last New Year's Eve as Adams, his wife and three young daughters were crossing the border at Lugano for a holiday visit with Adams' wife's family, Adams was seized on suspicion of breaking Swiss "industrial espionage" laws, which forbid any unauthorized communication of business...