Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more spectacular outrages since 1968, when some enterprising Palestinians pioneered modern-day political extortion by forcing an El Al jet down in Algeria and negotiating the release of 16 Arabs from Israeli jails in return for the lives of twelve Israeli hostages. During the past five years, Palestinian terrorists, Latin American guerrilleros, Viet Nam War protesters and common criminals in Europe and the Americas have been responsible for roughly 260 skyjackings and political kidnapings. Their bold forays have brought a Dark Ages gloom to travel and diplomacy in much of the 20th century world. What has been learned about...
Died. The Most Rev. James A. McNulty, 72, iron-willed, hot-tempered Roman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo; a conservative in matters of doctrine and discipline who nonetheless championed the cause of the poverty stricken in his own diocese and in Latin America; of a stroke; in Montclair...
...problem is to get this newest bee off the drawing boards. Latin countries do not have funds for the necessary research, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture has not committed itself to the project. Besides, there is always the chance that the new strain would escape before it was fully developed...
During the past school year, Frisoli refused to approve an Afro-American organization at Cambridge High and Latin because its membership would be open to all students. When students subsequently demonstrated in protest at his office. Frisoli replied by calling the police...
...attended Mass last Sunday at the Roman Catholic church, which opened last November and is located in the southwest corner of the old legation quarter. The Mass was celebrated entirely in Latin by the Chinese priest, who stood, gorgeously vested in a green and gold chasuble, with his back to the congregation in the old manner. A choir of one woman and four men sang Latin hymns. Again, the congregation was mostly European, with a sprinkling of Africans from Zambia and Tanzania and a few Chinese, among them a party member who said that he was "just checking...