Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burned child and the words "Shalom and Napalm"-a reference to the use of napalm by Israelis in last August's reprisal raid on the Jordanian town of Salt. Other stamps show a guerrilla fighter, a monument to martyrs or Jerusalem, with the slogan: "Palestinian Resistance." The money raised, of course, goes to buy bullets...
These days El Fatah hardly has time to fight as it copes with the avalanche of aid. Stacks of bandages, food and ammunition are piled everywhere. Sometimes the arriving shipments include beer. It is not drunk; the fedayeen sell it and use the money to purchase arms. Some of the fedayeen weapons are purchased directly, but some are contributed by Arab governments, particularly Egypt, Iraq and Syria, which help out in other ways as well. A Syrian raider captured by the Israelis revealed that he had been trained by Egyptian army officers...
...Perez Jimenez in the '50s had used the country's oil revenues, its biggest source of income, to turn Caracas into one of South America's most spectacular cities and to refurbish himself as well. Action Democrdtica ousted Perez Jimenez in 1958 and put the oil money into schools, highways, health programs and rural electrification. Venezuela still has a $900 million reserve and the bolivar is the continent's strongest currency. Not surprisingly, Barrios' slogan was a simple "continuismo...
...from Washington for a new science building. The college got around its dilemma by keeping separate sets of books for funds received from denominational and private donors. The trustees repay Washington from private funds, permitting them to claim that the church itself has stayed clear of involvement with Government money. The Rev. J. T. Miller, president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, smilingly explains that the college has thus solved its financial problems "by beating the devil around the stump one way or another...
...stayed on, Schuman admitted, he would have to devote considerably more of his energies to administration and fund raising. And with good reason: Lincoln Center is close to bankruptcy. The 1969 summer festival has been canceled, and the center has decided not to continue financing the prestigious but money-losing New York Film Festival. The center is so pinched for funds that it has even dropped its monthly news bulletin and journal...