Word: mi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arabs in the occupied territories-but perhaps particularly for the 650,000 Palestinians on the West Bank-the decade since the '67 war has been a time of frustration, humiliation and resentment. Israeli troops still maintain law-and-order-often with brusque insensitivity-in their 2,270-sq.-mi. homeland of rolling hills and desert...
...easy enough-the U.L.C. ordains ministers for $2 down and $2 a month (TIME. Feb. 10, 1975)-but that does not account for the mass ordination. The turn to religion is a protest against the fact that more than a sixth of the town's 84 sq. mi. were already owned by several tax-exempt religious groups (Zen Buddhists, Tibetan monks) and one educational group (the Center for Conservation). That left taxpayers bearing huge burdens to support their local roads and schools. One farmer, for example, was making about $8,000 a year off his 330 acres-and paying...
...police the 2.2 million sq. mi. added to U.S. fishing waters-a fourfold increase in the area covered by the old law-the Coast Guard plans to add four planes, five helicopters and six ships, at a total cost of $90 million...
...scattered oases, and soldiers who cautiously patrol old battlefields, Sinai's inhabitants hug the coastlines. Yet for all the peninsula's vast emptiness and apparent lack of natural wealth, Israel appears to be determined to hold on to a third of the 24,000-sq.-mi. area, which it captured in 1967. One reason is strategic. Another is economic: there may not be much in the desert in the way of resources, but offshore there...
...father, who comes from a German-Mexican family, is a guitarist who sang Mexican songs to his four children when they were little. (Gilbert Ronstadt's name appears with Linda's and that of her friend Bass Player Kenny Edwards as co-author of Lo Siento Mi Vida on the album Hasten Down the Wind...