Word: handfull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A handful of Israelis speak optimistically of continuing to live within Israeli enclaves in Sinai even after Egypt regains sovereignty. Most of the settlers, however, doubt that the negotiations will allow for so amicable a resolution of their situation. "I don't believe there will ever be peace with...
Three years ago, Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas emerged from their jungle hideouts and quietly but firmly seized power in the languid nation once known as "the land of a million elephants." Since then, the People's Democratic Republic of Laos has been off limits to most Western journalists. Among...
Damman is one of a handful of Harvard students who work with community organizations like Local 880 as part of a program sponsored by Phillips Brooks House's Committee for Economic Change (CEC).
Today, Namibia is the apartheid state's apartheid state. It is administered by an official appointed from Pretoria, with the help of an all-white territorial assembly. Namibia, like South Africa, has its bantustans, its pass laws, its political detainees. If anything, the Namibian racial lines are drawn even more...
SAFETY. Only a handful of hysterics believe that a conventional nuclear plant could explode in a mushroom cloud and wipe out a city. But many fear less dramatic accidents, including "melt down," which could occur if a reactor lost the water used to control the temperature of its core, ruptured...