Word: joining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peace treaty of its real and meaningful essence. If this is accepted, we will not have peace with Egypt." There was concern, for instance, that Syria could mass troops threateningly on Israel's border in order to provoke an Israeli pre-emptive attack, thereby giving Cairo an excuse to join in a war against Israel...
...particularly difficult one for Indianapolis' Kenneth L. Teegarden, president of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), a respectable denomination of 1.3 million members. Until his death Jones, for all his aberrations, was a clergyman in good standing in that church. What is more, he took care to join the Guyana Council of Churches...
...they feared they might have to spend too much and accept overly harsh austerity policies to support their currencies, which are weaker than the mark. As their price for participation, they wanted more loans and grants from richer E.C. countries. In fact, Italy and Ireland may still decide to join before the new system starts next month. Britain will stay out at least until after next year's election, but it supports the program in principle and promises to try to hold the pound within the desired band...
Charles A. Krause, the Washington Post's South American correspondent who had escaped from the Port Kai-tuma ambush with a superficial bullet wound, managed to join the pool of reporters that returned to the Jonestown site with Guyanese authorities. He was filing from his hotel room in Georgetown when Post Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee recalled him to Washington. There Krause holed up in a suite at the Madison Hotel and began working. "It was sort of like Georgetown," Krause recalled. "I was being held captive." At first dictating his recollections and later doing his own typing, Krause...
...Colonel Hakim Félix Ellellou, Kush's Muslim-Marxist President, such imports are ideological and theological blasphemies. Yet Ellellou himself has had his head turned by the West. At 17, he left his native village to join the French colo nial army. He served in Indochina before Dien Bien Phu and spent the middle '50s studying liberal arts in Wisconsin. Back home, married to a white college sweet heart, Ellelloū rose through the ranks under a French-puppet king and then emerged as the leader of the coup that put him in power...