Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much as he would like to throw the guerrillas out, Hussein no longer has the power even to hold them in check. Last month he dispatched 20 carloads of troops and police to order a guerrilla unit to leave the refugee camp at Karamah. When it arrived, the column was surrounded by machine-gun-toting commandos, quickly withdrew when the fedayeen commander delivered a matter-of-fact announcement: "You have three minutes to decide whether you leave or die." The rest of the Arab world has taken up the fedayeen with nearly unanimous vigor. Iraq and Syria offer training programs...
...Pope John's Council, which dealt frankly with religious liberty and freedom of conscience, as freeing them to vote Communist in good conscience. The result has split the nation's Catholic intellectuals into two warring groups, the "conciliari," who follow the Council, and the "Pa-celliani," who hold to the views of Pope Pius XII, the former Eugenio Pacelli. By supporting Catholic candidates, the Communists hope to exploit this "postconciliar" split. They now hope for more open Catholic support, both from ordinary voters and vocal Catholic intellectuals...
...taxes and devaluation, Qrit-ons can expect their cost of living in 1968 to increase at least 5% and possibly more. But Jenkins also announced that he intends to hold Britain's wage increases to a maximum of 3½% for another 18 months. That grim arithmetic means that Britons will not get enough extra money to meet the rising costs. As a result, for the first time in 17 years, the British will experience a downturn in their standard of living...
...time"-trust no one, freeze your mind, be indifferent. Roughly 80% of adult inmates need psychiatric help. But illtrained, ill-paid guards are so concerned with security that treatment staffs can barely function. All American prisons have onl$ 150 full-time psychiatrists, half of them in federal institutions, which hold only 5% of all prisoners...
...take part in a national "Academic Day of Conscience" on April 15, which "Resist" is coordinating at 400 campuses across the country. The Union hopes to hold a large anti-war rally in the Yard...