Word: illing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Billy is my brother. He is seriously ill at this point. I love him." With these emotional words, Jimmy Carter tried last week at his press conference to put an end to the ugly rumble of resentment over the increasingly reckless be havior of his younger brother Billy...
...upset about the whole thing, about his brother going to pot . . ." There were indeed reports last week that Billy was brooding, jittery and deeply despondent in the hospital in Americus, Ga., where he is confined for bronchitis. But his physician, Dr. Paul Broun, insisted that Billy was not "seriously ill." Said he: "Seriously ill means it could lead to his demise...
Akins advocated a mixture of toughness and sympathy toward the Saudis. "The most important effort is to bring the corruption there under control, because it is great. Extraordinary agents' fees [fees demanded by well-connected Saudis on purchases from the U.S., often suspected of being ill-concealed bribes] have to be cut out. You can point out to them that this is a main topic of conversation in the country, as indeed it is." Since corruption causes social unrest, Akins considers this so important that he believed the warning should be delivered by President Carter "or an emissary...
...some 20,000 Chinese troops poured out of the Himalayas overlooking India's North East Frontier Agency (NEFA). Other Chinese forces marched through the rocky wastes of the Ladakh region of Kashmir, about 1,000 miles to the west. Outgunned and outmanned by the invaders, the ill-equipped Indian army fell back. After a month of smashing Chinese victories, much of northern India lay open to conquest. But suddenly the invaders stopped dead in their tracks. Radio Peking announced that "on its own initiative" China was declaring a ceasefire. Chinese troops pulled back from the front, in some cases...
...only upset of the day came in the "B" Championship when Gonzalez, unranked in the tournament, drew Gerhart, seeded third, in a qualifying round Gerhart has been ill all week with the flu and with another as yet unidentified ailment...