Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During a five-hour private meeting, Assad argued with Sadat not to go, but the two could only agree to disagree. "Unfortunately, President Assad does not agree that I should go to Jerusalem," Sadat told newsmen as he left Damascus to return to Cairo, following a chilly send-off from Assad. In a separate interview, Assad said that it was "painful that I could not convince him nor dissuade him from making the trip." Yasser Arafat also deplored the mission on the ground that it threatened Arab unity, and pleaded with Sadat to cancel the trip. The embarrassed Arafat...
...asked Sadat how he compared this moment with the H-hour on Oct. 6, 1973, when he sent his army across the Suez Canal. He became serious and leaned forward. "I want to show that it would not have been necessary to do what we did in October of 1973 if [the Israelis] had responded to my diplomatic effort before...
...police at Port Elizabeth fail to tell the examining doctors that Biko had suffered a head bump? Why did the doctors fail to diagnose the brain injury, even though they all noticed that Biko was incoherent? Why was a dying man subjected to a 14½-hour road trip to Pretoria? And what ever happened to the story that he had been on a hunger strike...
...fighting. At week's end 33 Royal Air Force fire teams were dispatched to 13 cities to aid beleaguered soldiers. Thanks to the valiant service of the emergency recruits, no major catastrophe had occurred, and no deaths were directly attributable to the strike-but the danger was there, hour by hour...
Though many Britons expressed sympathy for the firemen's cause, their patience is bound to be tried if the strike drags on. In Glasgow, a fire in a textile factory got away from a company of 80 troops and raged for twelve hours. The building burned to the ground. As soldiers stood by helplessly without enough foam spreaders and breathing equipment which strikers had refused to hand over, a 30-hour blaze engulfed a $140 million power plant east of London...