Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death squad, consisting of 11 terrorists, two of them women, is believed to have been launched from a ship offshore, from which they put out in two Zodiak commando boats, loaded down with Kalashnikov rifles, RPG light montars and high explosives. In late afternoon they beached near a kibbutz called Ma'agan Mikha'el, then walked less than a mile up to the four-lane highway. After opening fire at passing traffic, they hijacked a white Mercedes taxi, killing its occupants. Setting off down the highway toward Tel Aviv, they met a bus on its way to Haifa...
...Late last week Andreotti presented his new government-Italy's 40th since the collapse of Fascism in 1943-to President Giovanni Leone. The deal will take effect when he asks parliament for a formal vote of confidence this week. For the first time in 31 years on such a vote, the Communists will stand up to say Aye. All parties made it clear that the arrangement was to continue only until the presidential elections at the end of this year...
...Soviet ambassador suddenly called late in April 1972, to convey an "urgent" message from the Soviet leaders. They wanted me to pay a visit to Moscow. We-the Soviet leaders and I-agreed at our Moscow talks on the need for them to send us a detailed analysis of the situation after [President Richard] Nixon's visit to Moscow in May, preparatory to the shipment to Egypt of all those weapons included in the old contracts. November 1972, when the U.S. presidential campaign would be held, was the agreed deadline. The idea was that we should be adequately prepared...
...Soviet "analysis," following from the Moscow Nixon meeting, reached me on July 6-in other words, more than a month late. This analysis explained that no progress had been achieved on the Middle East question in the Soviet-American talks-just as I had predicted during my Moscow visit late in April-in view of the fact that it was the U.S. election year. What was even more odd, the Soviet analysis conveyed to me by the Soviet ambassador said nothing at all about the failure to ship the requested weapons...
Worst of all, this picture of a self-indulgent America, blind to the consequences of its economic management, has been steadily hardening since the late 1960s. Until then, the non-Communist world had lived fairly comfortably with a system of currency exchange rates pegged to the dollar, whose value was fixed in gold (at $35 per oz., a price that seems ridiculous today). That system might not have lasted in any case; even in the early 1960s there were worries about American balance of payments deficits and an outflow of gold from the U.S. But Lyndon Johnson put an intolerable...