Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which 17 died. The riots caused the downfall of the government of Rashid Karami, who resigned to avoid a confrontation that would hurt Lebanon, but stayed on as caretaker Premier. After the riots, the guerrillas tacitly agreed to operate only along Lebanon's border with Israel and to keep away from civilian settlements against which the Israelis could retaliate. Despite the agreement, they have tripled their forces to about 5,400 men and set up new camps deeper inside Lebanese territory. Two weeks ago. apparently without bothering to check with Helou or Karami, the army moved. Arguing that...
...support the Palestinian struggle within the limits of its ability." Such a move, however, would invite even more severe Israeli reprisals. Should the government fall, two main possibilities exist: 1) An army-backed takeover if Helou decided to resign or if the generals decided that he could no longer keep order, or 2) a leftwing, Nasserite regime that would abandon Lebanon's live-and-let-live approach to Israel and intensify fighting along the borders. Whether Israel would tolerate such a development without invading Lebanon is doubtful...
...question is whether the hardliners will find Médici too moderate. Already, Three-Star General Affonso Albuquerque Lima, a disappointed presidential aspirant, has warned Medici's men that "more audacious" officers are waiting in the wings. Clearly, Médici's problem will be to keep discontent from boiling over in the streets-and in the barracks as well...
...write a novel, poetry and plays expressing the frustrations of a ghetto black. He claims that he can get along on 15 hours of sleep a week. John Gonzales, a journalism major at San Francisco State College, finds that he cannot hold a job during the school year and keep up his studies. But he works 60 hours a week during the summer, lives on the pay he saves in the winter and gets state-guaranteed student loans when the cash runs out. Mostly he works in lumber mills, like his Mexican immigrant father; his mother frequently sends him vegetables...
...deep affection. Eric Priestley is constantly pained by the thought that his 65-year-old mother, who has a bad heart, still does housework for other people and that his father, 63, who has hardening of the arteries as well as a bad heart, must still mow lawns to keep a rented roof over their heads. Patricia Cabbell, 25, who clerks at Federal City College for 18 hours a week while studying nursing, is determined to earn the pride of her father, a Baptist minister who did not go to college. "I'm his hope," she says...