Word: ils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet Union in the 1920s, whisky dealer, art collector and oil magnate in the U.S.-Ar-mand Hammer has probably never had a worse week. First, the 77-year-old chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp. pleaded guilty in a Washington court to a charge of making three il legal contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign. Then Hammer's oil firm accused the Libyan government of holding 520 of its employees as hostages in a dispute that has turned Occidental's investment in Libya, once considered Hammer's master stroke, into a growing headache...
...Christian Democrats, including a stint for the past two years. Last week his leadership of the Christian Democrats, Italy's largest party, ended abruptly. At an emergency national council of the party, Fanfani, whose conglomeration of nicknames Includes "the Tuscan Pony," "the Pint-Sized Napoleon," "Little Caesar" and "il Padrino " (the godfather) was booted out on a vote of no confidence...
...view, there is the problem of the babel of accents in the international casts that might be found at, say, the Met. Probably the inanities and repetitions found in most operas would be unacceptable in English for pragmatic American audiences. Anyone seriously following the plot might walk out on il Trovatore...
...near future. When a foundation of peace has been secured by accelerating dialogue and cooperation between the South and North, we can proceed to unification through free elections conducted in proportion to the population. But judging from their actions, the North Koreans are not interested in dialogue. Kim Il Sung has publicly asserted that he will not continue the dialogue unless the present government resigns and the U.S. withdraws its forces. They are employing the same tactics that the Viet Cong used in Viet Nam when they said they would negotiate only if Thieu stepped down. When Thieu stepped down...
...President Park Chung Hee seems positively Jeffersonian compared with his counterpart north of the Demilitarized Zone. No other country can rival North Korea in its thoroughgoing control over every aspect of the lives of its 15 million citizens, or in the total deification of its leader, President Kim Il Sung...