Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than 10,000 weeping, screaming citizens gathered to lament the dead. Mourners became ravagers who roamed the streets shouting anti-Shah slogans, smashing windows and starting fires. Government forces sent warning shots into the air in an attempt to restore order. The U.S. embassy warned American citizens to "maintain the lowest profile possible" while the unrest continued...
...official with very rich constituents. "We are one of the most overemployed areas in the United States," he says. And it is true that there are plenty of jobs for blacks as well as whites in the oil and sulfur companies, in fishing and orange growing. "We try to maintain the standards of those who are here. Everybody in the country complains about federal regulation. We've resisted federal dollars to avoid federal dictatorship...
...work on his next book. It will be about the future, what old lessons tell him about the next 20 years, how America must and can retain its world leadership, maintain its economic strength. He will write about the role of the presidency, enlarging on his feeling that the institution is not going to be dramatically changed and that Presidents must take the office as it is and determine events with their personal skills. When he wrote the current book, RN, of which 300,000 copies are now in print, the former President dictated 1.5 million words about events...
...Israel would agree to a declaration of principles involving the future of these occupied territories and the 1.1 million Palestinians living there. He said that Israel would agree not to annex those areas, not to establish any more settlements there once a joint declaration had been achieved, and to maintain only enough military force there for its own security. He added that the Begin government would be prepared to accept a West Bank administration composed of Israeli and Jordanian representatives and local Palestinians...
What are the Soviets up to? Anders Sjaastad of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs believes that "the incidents are linked to the Soviets' antisubmarine efforts." The Russians maintain a line of undersea sonar devices across the Arctic waters that separate Norway from Spitsbergen Island. NATO also has an underwater sensing line that extends westward from Vardo toward Greenland. One supposition is that the ships are somehow involved in a project to upgrade the Soviet antisubmarine spy system. Another is that they would like to tamper with?possibly eavesdrop on?NATO signals...