Word: june
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people of the two Yemens consider themselves to be one nation, but the radically different political views of their governments have made reunion impossible. According to North Yemen, Aden mounted the latest invasion to halt an embarrassing exodus from the south-perhaps 20,000 people since last June. The North Yemenis also charged that the invading forces had killed "large numbers of women and children" in an assault led by Soviet-supplied planes, tanks and artillery. Although claims to captured territory were difficult to verify in the remote and mountainous region, the South Yemen forces had apparently seized the towns...
Five Harvard students captured the regional College Bowl championship at Fairfield College in Connecticut last week. The team will go on to compete for the national championship to be held in Miami in June...
...real problems began in June 1972, when then-President Richard M. Nixon vetoed a bill that would have provided long-term funding for public broadcasting. Nixon charged that broadcasters had deserted the essential concept of local programming recommended by Carnegie I. Yet recently released documents show that underneath its public statements, the administration was really criticizing public broadcasters for their anti-Nixon viewpoints. A memo to H.R. Haldeman from Clay T. Whitehead, then head of the Office of Telecommunications Policy, reveals a plan to quietly purge public television's anti-administration spokesmen. John Erlichman advised that the "best alternative would...
...Massachusetts House of Representatives yesterday pushed the effective date of the drinking age bill to June by removing a preamble making the bill effective April...
Robinson said if the measure had taken effect on April Fool's Day, "the legislature and the governor would have been a damn laughing stock." He said he believes high school and college students would be less likely to protest the drinking age hike in June, when they are not in school...