Word: joining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would like King Hussein to join. But until now, he demanded of us a prior commitment to go back to the lines of June 4, 1967, lock, stock and barrel, including Jerusalem. That wouldn't be acceptable to any party in Israel, except the Communists...
...doesn't join, what happens...
...West?might yet be able to buy a little time to try to salvage a peaceable future in the region. If the verkrampte forces prevail, the confrontation between the U.N. and South Africa could come within months. In that event, the U.S. and Britain will have to join in economic sanctions or see the total collapse of the humane African policy, based on self-determination for blacks, that they have painstakingly constructed during the past two years...
Last week the regime of Premier Pol Pot was staggering under the weight of its own excesses. The government's ability to withstand Hanoi's military offensive was in jeopardy. Increasing numbers of once fanatically loyal Khmer Rouge were deserting to join the enemy forces. Peasants in Cambodian villages near the Vietnamese border had revolted, murdering the fierce Khmer "controllers" who police the villages. At the same time, 200 Cambodian civilians a week were desperately crossing minefields and other deadly border booby traps to take refuge in Thailand. More than 150,000 have already escaped to Viet...
Before setting off for the Crusades seven centuries ago, Louis IX of France ordered the kingdom's bordellos closed. Uprooted but unfazed, many French prostitutes proceeded to join the Crusaders, traipsing along to the Holy Land as camp followers. Modern rulers have not had much better luck. When the French government cracked down on prostitution three years ago, the ladies of the night took sanctuary in churches...