Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vehicle for anti-Faisal propaganda campaigns, observed last week: "The Arab nation can never forget his heroic stand during the October war, or that he launched the oil battle in support of the fighters in Sinai and the Golan, or the moral and material aid that he gave without limit to the front-line states." Recalling that Faisal's most abiding wish-to pray at the Dome of the Rock in an East Jerusalem under Arab jurisdiction-had not been fulfilled, the newspaper added: "He gave much toward achieving [the dream] that all Moslems can pray in Jerusalem when...
Fahd was opposed by a number of his half brothers, who wanted to limit the power and influence of the omnipresent Sudeiris; for example, Prince Sultan is Minister of Defense, Prince Ahmed is deputy governor of Mecca, while Prince Salman is governor of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital. Fahd probably had the strength to displace Khalid as heir apparent, but to avoid a devastating family fight he agreed to the compromise under which Khalid would become King and he would be named Crown Prince...
...five uprisings that have shaken Eastern Europe since 1953, three stemmed directly from unpopular economic measures. Once again, Eastern European workers will be asked to make sacrifices. The increased fuel costs are bound to retard the growth of Eastern Europe's fertilizer, petrochemical and synthetic textile industries, and limit supplies of some consumer goods. Those goods will have to be sold to the Soviet Union to raise rubles, but Moscow is insisting on terms of trade that are likely to anger Eastern Europeans. Though the Soviets have more than doubled the fuel bill, they are offering to pay only...
...interns and residents told horror stories of falling asleep on their feet during operations; one admitted that he had pulled out several stitches after dozing off while holding an incision open with retractors. To reduce the chances of hospital accidents, the C.I.R. asked for a shorter week with a limit of 15 hours to a shift whenever possible...
...tradition" rather than royal charter. The Federal Government's jurisdiction over foreign affairs, foreign commerce and national defense, said the court, gave it title and rights to minerals from the coastline outward to sea. In 1953 Congress returned to the states their rights out to the three-mile limit, but no farther. In U.S. v. Maine, the court last week said that the states are not entitled to an inch more than Congress gave them. Thus it cleared the way for the Interior Department to start the leasing procedures for the Baltimore Canyon, a promising offshore area stretching from...