Word: landings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speech should be historic. It is also historic in its lack of concrete means of effecting a cure." The cover of Der Spiegel, the West German newsmagazine, had a cartoon of a countrified Carter standing atop an empty oil barrel in front of a sign reading U.S.A.−LAND OF UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES. The President was shown painting out the un from unlimited. Stem, West Germany's largest illustrated weekly, hoked up a photo collage of Carter holding a gas nozzle to his head...
...continues to hemorrhage, in what some observers believe may be the death throes of the Khmers as a people. A nation that once numbered between 7 million and 8 million people is now believed to total only 4 million to 5 million. Much of the country's farm land has been devastated by war, and refugees report that the Vietnamese forces are shipping to their own country what little rice is now being grown in Cambodia. French doctors who recently visited the country fear that it could be swept by bubonic plague...
...million people of this France-size land call their country Muang-Thai, which means land of the free. Thailand, in fact, is the only country in Southeast Asia that was never colonized by a Western power. For centuries the country has managed to survive the ambitions of would-be occupiers through a combination of diplomatic guile, compromise, opportunism and sheer luck...
ABOUT twice a week the Prouty Garden at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston is bedecked with balloons and crepe paper, and the garden may be transformed into a foregn land or perhaps even an ice cream factory as was the case last Tuesday. But regardless of the festive setting one cannot overlook the I.V. poles, the bandages, the carriages and wheelchairs--constant reminders that these children all have special problems...
...contribution in the short term is uncertain because uncertain demand for the fuel by electrical utilities has made the railroads, coal's key transportation link, hesitant to upgrade their service. Moreover, opposition to the environmental hazards of coal usage (which include black lung disease, the scarring of the land by strip mining, and air, water and thermal pollution) cause the Project to condemn coal. The stalmate between government and industry leaders and nuclear power critics over the true costs and benefits of nuclear power has ruled out adoption of that power source in the short term...