Word: joints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...probe involved police tolerance of flagrant offenses in Cincinnati's taverns. One of them was the Clock Bar, a joint that offered free meals and booze to cops who overlooked the flourishing trade in hard drugs carried on there (one report said 646 bags of heroin were seized there in an eight-month period last year). Yet the Clock kept ticking; it did not close until a plainclothesman was shot to death near by last summer...
...General Assembly resolution equating Zionism with racism. Despite Israeli protestations, the U.S. may, in the end, accept some modification of Resolutions 242 and 338, such as inserting a reference to "the legitimate interests of the Palestinian people," the language first used by Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev in their joint communique of June 1973. At the debate, the Egyptians will back the P.L.O. but also urge the Palestinians not to push too hard. Reason: Cairo does not want to provoke a U.S. veto, which would too clearly label Washington as an intransigent opponent of the Palestinians. Egyptian President Sadat...
...spring of 1972, the marriage counselor proposed to the graduate students that they form a joint committee with administrators--a joint committee that, in the words of the Faculty's secretary, would "address itself to the multiple interests within a varied and large academic community...
When Roberto's plane was late arriving for ceremonies inaugurating the two groups' joint government in Huambo last month, UNITA airport officials, tired of waiting, turned off the runway lights and went home. A furious Roberto was forced to return to Kinshasa. Recently there have been fistfights, stone-throwing and open fighting between soldiers of the two allies. In one Shootout in Huambo two weeks ago, 25 were killed. Although UNITA and F.N.L.A. commanders meet to plan strategy, there is no joint field command, and no soldier from one movement will take an order from an officer...
...Joint Ventures. Aside from the replacement of foreign directors by Venezuelans, the most conspicuous immediate changes in the way the oil industry operates in the country will be changes in the names of the companies now under Petrovén. Creole Petroleum will become Lagoven; the former Shell subsidiary will be known as Maraven. One cautious provision in the nationalization law even permits Petrovén to undertake joint ventures with private foreign companies in any petroleum-related field, such as shipping or exploration...