Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egypt. Unless the Arabs took joint action, he declared, "the Israelis will not stop until they have reached Mecca and seized your oil wealth." To which the Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, replied tartly: "Mecca has a God to protect it. As for the oil, it has men defending it." By week's end the group had voted to raise $9 billion to strengthen Arab defenses against Israel, and sent a four-man delegation to meet Sadat in hopes of persuading him to give up his peace initiative. But Sadat refused to see them, declaring that "billions...
...more than 6,000 Ethiopian militiamen were cut down by rebels firing captured Communist artillery. Ethiopian Strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam, who had vowed to crush the rebels by Sept. 12, the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of the late Emperor Haile Selassie, ordered the execution of 700 officers and men he held responsible for the fiasco...
...workers to accept the wisdom of his incomes policy. Last week 57,000 assembly-line workers at Ford Motor Co. Ltd., in the seventh week of a strike for higher pay, rejected a company offer of a 16.5% increase. Meanwhile, workers in the public sector, from teachers to trash men, are also pushing for raises of up to 40%. If Callaghan hangs tough and a winter of strikes follows, the result could be stormy for Sunny...
...pressmen accepted lower manning levels (eleven men per press instead of twelve) and agreed to submit the issue of reduced support crews to arbitration. Those cuts are expected to save the News and Times each about $4 million a year, the Post about $2 million. The Post had resumed publication last month after Publisher Rupert Murdoch agreed to accept any terms eventually worked out between the unions and the other rival papers, a copycat clause that earned Murdoch the nickname "Mr. Me Too" among negotiators. "Both sides came out smelling like a rose," according to Kheel. Yet the strike cost...
...recipes lean heavily on their titles (Heavenly Peach Pie, Boudoir Cheesecake), and her menus on their scenarios. Thus the You Tiger You meal features a hearty beef Stroganoff and a Reconcile Feast includes stuffed pork chops and coconut cream pie. "It's so important," she insists, "to furnish men happy moments at mealtime." Her husband Charlie takes a judicious view of total cookery. "All things being equal," he says, "I'd rather have a nice meal than not have...