Word: interring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told, the job of rebuilding will run into billions of dollars. Nine of the biggest hotels in the hotel district, including the Beirut Hilton, Phoenicia Inter-Continental and Holiday Inn, were so badly damaged that renovation will take at least a year. The stately St. Georges Hotel, grande dame of the district, will probably have to be razed and rebuilt. The light industries, such as clothing, foodstuffs and plastics, that ringed Beirut have also been shattered. In Mekalles alone, 30 factories were destroyed in the battle over the Tel Zaatar refugee camp (TIME...
Rear Admiral William Benkert, chief of the Coast Guard's Office of Merchant Vessel Safety, indignantly denies the environmentalists' charges. "We haven't been sitting on our dead ass," he protests. But someone is. The U.S. has yet to ratify the liability convention adopted by the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization in 1969. Congress has yet to see the Administration's bill carrying out IMCO'S 1973 convention on ocean pollution. Nor was the U.S. successful in pushing for the adoption of rules requiring newly constructed tankers to have double bottoms. Such a construction feature is now mandatory...
...million Latin Americans live in extreme poverty, the commission would shift to the poorest nations all direct aid by the U.S. To help more developed countries like Brazil and Mexico, it favors large grants of new capital to international lending agencies. Such funding could enable the World and Inter-American Development banks to ease the burden of recession-generated debt that now erodes up to 40% of export earnings of some Latin American na tions. Says Linowitz: "We're focusing on how to permit these people to go forward without being strangled by their heavy obligations." The commission report...
...dozen years, Maxine Cheshire has spun out a column of capital chatter-Spiro Agnew's literary adventures, Elizabeth Taylor's offstage antics at the Kennedy Center, Muhammad Ali's hasty exit from a White House party-that the Washington Post and some 300 subscribing newspapers generally inter among the family pages. In recent months, however, Cheshire's byline has been strutting on the front page above scoops on the hottest continuing scandal of the year: alleged efforts by South Korean agents to bribe U.S. Congressmen...
JOHN HOLMES, 60, the primus inter pares of the Mormon Mafia, though the only non-Mormon among them (he is a Roman Catholic). Holmes worked in Southern California as a salesman for a tobacco company before he signed on as Hughes' personal driver in the early 1950s. He joined the inner circle in 1957, and is now one of Summa Corp.'s five directors. Tense, quiet and politically conservative, Holmes is said to have been a very heavy coffee drinker and a chain-smoker-but never in Hughes' presence...