Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latitude of expression. While tendentious reporting is irritating," the White House cable continued, "suppression of news leads to much more serious trouble." Lodge demurred that it was hopeless to talk with Diem since he and his brother, Secret Police Chief Ngo Dinh Nhu, believed that such reforms would under mine their power. But the White House replied: "We ourselves can see much virtue in an effort to reason with an unreasonable man when he is on a collision course...
Mostly, Carole writes songs that are well suited to today's nostalgia for old-fashioned romance, loneliness (So Far Away), love (Where You Lead) and fondness for children (Child of Mine...
Discovered by Pigs. The outlaw monopoly starts right at the mines, in the jagged Andes 60 miles northeast of Bogotá. Many jewels are stolen by miners in the government's Muzo, Peñas Blancas and Coscuez mines. The thieves pocket most of the emeralds that they dig out of the soil, paying off the inspectors who are supposed to guard the pits. Other stones are illegally mined to begin with. A miner with a few pesos to invest in dynamite and tools assembles a squad of men and goes off to dig. It is not a difficult...
...Pirate's Ghost, will hit the racks next week. The 10.5 million copies now in print have realized about $4.5 million in sales. Doc Savage fan clubs have sprung up and three producers have been negotiating for film and television rights. "We've struck into a bronze mine," Bantam's Marc Jarre explains. "Publishing one a month, we've got six years to go in the series. Then we can start over...
Tangled Feud. As if to underscore the most pressing of them, half of the nation's 95,000 union miners stomped off their grimy jobs for several days last week in wildcat strikes. They were protesting the court-ordered removal of United Mine Workers President W.A. ("Tony") Boyle from the board of the union's mismanaged pension fund. The union boss's forced withdrawal from pension affairs was the latest development in a tangled feud between union factions that has led to many lawsuits. Although the miners' grievance was with the courts, they followed...