Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major difficulty, however, is the fact that the proposed settlement does not include representatives of the Patriotic Front, which has some 17,000 guerrillas in neighboring Mozambique and Zambia engaged in a war of attrition with the Smith government. As expected, Front Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe castigated the internal settlement plan and vowed to step up the fighting. "We are going to hit each other hard," Nkomo said ominously after the announcement last week. "We intend to finish [Smith...
...Welfare rejected the hospital's request for federal funds to build the wing. But Flood bypassed HEW by attaching a $14.5 million grant for the hospital to a bill appropriating antipoverty funds for the federal Community Services Administration. Later Flood urged the hospital to hire Pennsylvania Congressman Joshua Eilberg's law firm in Philadelphia to arrange a bond issue that raised an added $39.5 million for the wing. For its work, the firm received...
According to the Book of Joshua, the Lord was pleased when the Israelites assembled at Shiloh, 25 miles north of Jerusalem in the brown-green Samarian hills, to erect a tabernacle in his honor. Today, eight devout Orthodox Jewish families, huddled in mobile homes near the archaeological ruins of biblical Shiloh (pronounced Shelow), are certain the Lord is pleased that his people have reestablished a settlement on the site. Almost no one else is. Shiloh is the newest of four illegal settlements in the West Bank created and populated by Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), a nationalistic religious group...
Carter got himself in trouble by making two serious mistakes. Several times he told less than the truth about his role in expediting the removal of Marston. Then, after admitting he was asked to fire Marston by one of the prosecutor's targets of investigation, Democratic Congressman Joshua Eilberg of Pennsylvania, Carter did it anyway...
...When he emerged, Marston said the Attorney General had told him that "the decision to fire me was final, and would not be reconsidered." Carter admitted the previous week that he had asked Bell to "expedite" the ouster of Marston after receiving a phone call from Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman Joshua Eilberg. Carter presumably did not know that Eilberg was under investigation by Marston's office for financial irregularities in a Philadelphia hospital's construction program...