Word: interational
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were forced to pay a total of $151,510 in fines. With a 50-boat flotilla headed down from San Diego and the prospect of yet another showdown, the State Department last week sent a diplomatic flotilla of its own, headed by Charles Meyer, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, to Quito to try to reach some kind of settlement...
Undefeated during his senior year at high school. Blakinger's biggest achievement was winning the Pennsylvania inter-scholastic wrestling championship. Ironically, at Penn this season, he lost to Eric Waters who stood third in the same championship in the same year as Blakinger...
...garden of Casa Pacifica, the President said that they had just finished the "most comprehensive discussion which has ever taken place between the Prime Minister of Japan and the President of the U.S." Sato concurred. The talks, he declared, "contributed to strengthening the unshakable relationship of mutual trust and inter dependence between the people of the U.S. and Japan." Less enthusiastic, a Sato subordinate remarked: "I guess we will never be completely satisfied...
...shield their lights, but peasants throw stones at any car that keeps them on. In this uneasy atmosphere, Pakistani antiaircraft gunners opened up on their own high-flying Sabre jets one evening last week. At one point, the military stationed an antiaircraft ma chine gun atop the Rawalpindi Inter continental Hotel, but guests convinced them it was dangerous...
Since last spring, Leonid Brezhnev has unofficially ranked as the primus inter pares in Russia's collective leadership. But Brezhnev is handicapped by a bothersome pecking-order peculiarity of the Soviet system. As General Secretary of the Communist Party, he is the Soviet Union's most powerful official. On diplomatic protocol lists, however, he stands only No. 3. First is Nikolai Podgorny, who as chairman of the Presidium holds the position of head of state. Second is Aleksei Kosygin, who as Premier ranks as chief of government...