Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Roswell Bank of Georgia, used for Lance's unsuccessful campaign for Governor of Georgia in 1974; $185,000 from C & S National Bank in Atlanta, used to buy real estate. He also owes $340,000 on a mortgage on his Atlanta house and 8½ acres of land, which he valued...
...that the tires had become a breeding ground for rats and mosquitoes, repeatedly tried to force him to get rid of them. The state, worried about a fire hazard, once demanded that he bury his tires individually, 2 ft. deep and 4 ft. apart. "There's not enough land in the state to bury all my tires," snorted Heidelberger...
...time is ripe, on the ground that rising expectations followed by dramatic failure could lead to war. Although the government denies it, Israel would also like more time to create "new facts." Since the Six-Day War, the country has been establishing permanent Israeli settlements on occupied Arab land as the perimeters of a future boundary that would be permanently defensible. Last week, even as peace discussions proceeded, the government announced plans for another 100 such settlements. Because it takes time to establish these "new facts," Israel's Geneva strategy now is to stall...
While trying to cope with rebellion in Addis Ababa, Mengistu has had to deploy nearly half his 50,000-man army in a losing struggle against three different forces in Eritrea. The 20,000-man Eritrean Liberation Front (E.L.F.) controls much of the land near the Red Sea coast, while the 15,000-man Eritrean People's Liberation Front (E.P.L.F.) rampages through western Eritrea. Five thousand guerrillas of the Eritrean Liberation Front-Popular Liberation Forces (E.L.F.-P.L.F.) are fighting in the province's north central region. Variously supported by such Arab states as Syria, Sudan and Saudi Arabia...
...Soviet Union? A Latin American dictatorship? Not this time. The unpleasant scenario is being played out on the sandy plains and flat farm land of eastern North Carolina. Nine young black men and a white woman were convicted 41/2 years ago of fire-bombing a grocery store during racial disorders in the troubled river port of Wilmington. They were sentenced to terms totaling 282 years in prison. Last week, amid charges of perjury and coercion on both sides, the Wilmington Ten were back in a state courtroom, attempting to have the verdict overturned...