Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least five bodies burning inside. The rear windows were blasted out and the barrel of a machine-gun was poking out. A child aged seven or eight was lying on the asphalt, a bullet hole in its head. Three women in a nearby ditch screamed for help. I helped them limp to waiting ambulances. A young couple emerged from the ditch screaming, 'We had two children in the bus.' The woman was hysterical. 'Where are my children, my children?' she cried. The husband was steely calm. 'If my children are dead,' he said with...
...paper over their quarrel, imbalances in the makeup of France's electoral districts would require the leftist parties to win at least 52% or 53% of the popular vote before they could gain a majority in the Assembly. But a shift in France's political demographics may help the left attain that goal. Giscard's lowering of the voting age in 1974 created the youngest French electorate in 40 years. The increase in left-leaning young voters has more than counterbalanced the rise in the number of voters over 65, who tend to be conservative. The more...
...mixed bag of these riches: petroleum from major new oilfields in Western Siberia, coal from Neryungri and Chulman, iron ore and gold from Aldan, diamonds from Yakutia, and salt, asbestos, molybdenum, copper, tin and bauxite from various areas. Shipped to Japan and other resource-hungry nations, such exports will help Moscow earn the foreign currency it needs to pay for technological development...
...nature of the peace which Israel today says she wants to secure is nothing in effect but a new attempt to thwart the establishment of peace-a ruse to help her gain time so as to impose a fait accompli, in the short term by having Israeli settlements established on the occupied Arab land (which she does at present) and in the long term by resolving the current conflict between American and Israeli interests when, in the fullness of time, the energy crisis is itself resolved...
...objection to that; in fact, you should do all in your power to help Syria. But it doesn't mean you should deny me the tanks I asked for. You send the tanks and I'll deal with the counterattacks...