Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every month, Grandfather Jack, 68, and Grandmother Claire, 66, receive two checks in the mail. Jack's green Social Security check is for $195. He also gets a gold Supplemental Security Income check of $37.28 (of which $34.48 comes from Massachusetts, $2.80 from HEW). Based on her late husband's earnings, Claire's Social Security check is for $177, and her Supplemental Security check is for $55.28 (of which HEW contributes $20.80). The two grandparents get a chance to eat out at meal sites run by a state-administered program set up under HEW'S Older...
...Late last week, the President and CIA Director Stansfield Turner began briefing congressional leaders on the Administration's evidence. The four who attended the first such meeting seemed to come away convinced. Arizona's Republican Congressman John Rhodes said afterward that the information indicated the Cubans had been working with the Katangese "up to and through the day of the invasion." Said Senator Howard Baker, Tennessee Republican: "I think the Congress will be satisfied ... I don't think there is any doubt that the President has good, hard information ... and I think the Cubans are lying...
...doubts persist about the extent of the Cuban involvement with the Katangese, it may be in part because the rebels' history is so murky. Escaping from Katanga in the mid-1960s following the collapse of a separatist movement led by the late Moïse Tshombe, they initially supported Portugal in its fight against the black Angolan liberation groups. After one of the guerrilla groups, Agostinho Neto's Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, came to power in Luanda, the Katangese switched their allegiance to it. Although the Katangese have helped Neto's government in its continuing struggle with rival...
...heart of the Greco-Turkish diplomatic impasse is Cyprus. After a 1974 coup inspired by Athens' ruling junta against the late President Archbishop Makarios, Turkey?using U.S.-supplied arms?invaded the island to protect the minority of 120,000 Turkish Cypriots. The Turkish forces, however, then proceeded to partition Cyprus. They occupied 40% of the island, centered on the industrialized north, where virtually all Turkish Cypriots now live. Nearly 200,000 Greek Cypriots were forced to flee, joining their 320,000 ethnic brethren in the south. Blaming the U.S. for supporting the hated junta, which collapsed after the Cyprus coup...
Despite its remarkable achievements, the school is in a fight for survival, and this week's commencement could be the last. The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago plans to withdraw its subsidy this month. The archdiocese kept Providence-St. Mel going during a period of wrenching change in the late '60s and early '70s, when the school went from 50% white to all black, and enrollment (now 340) fell by two-thirds. More students are applying now, but the church says it cannot continue its $150,000 annual subsidy, which covers a third of the school's budget (the rest comes...