Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fascist era, and with its denial of basic civil liberties cannot really be acceptable to the new Western European community, founded on respect for human rights. The problem is, however, that ostracism may have the effect of solidifying popular support for Franco, as it did under the ill-fated U.N. resolution for diplomatic isolation...
...Reader Drimmer is correct. Since New York was a colony, Zenger was tried under English law, which stated that "if people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion...
...Party school, and became its star graduate when in 1958 he replaced Kozlov as premier of the Russian Soviet Republic, largest and richest of the 15 Soviet republics. Polyansky is loudly extraverted, urbanely intelligent, shrewdly aggressive-a combination of attributes matched only by Khrushchev himself. If Khrushchev should fall ill or die soon, Polyansky's youth would probably be a handicap, but if the succession struggle were to last for some time, he could well make the grade. Says one Washington official: "He is a shark, the type who would make his move only when Kozlov or somebody like...
What is important about the Jungle of Love, a craggy mountain region on the ill-defined Thai-Cambodian border, is that it houses an 800-year-old Hindu temple. Called Phra Viharn by Thais and Preah Vihear by Cambodians, it lies in ruins at the end of a long, rutted road deep in the jungle. Because past treaties involving the area are vague, the two countries have long and passionately disputed ownership (although both are predominantly Buddhist). Finally, in 1959, Cambodia asked the International Court of Justice in The Hague to render a judgment...
...Overholt; and in 50% or more, the relief is significant and sometimes dramatic. All his patients have been asthmatics for whom no other treatment, from portable respirators to electric shock, was effective. Most important, whereas previous nerve surgery for asthma sometimes disturbed the blood pressure or heart rate, no ill effects have yet been detected from removal of a carotid body...