Word: mountings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pondering a host of seemingly unpromising policy alternatives last week, some U.S. diplomats raised the prospect of an ominous Middle East chain of events: 1) a Begin government would announce the annexation to Israel of occupied territory, thereby triggering an Arab mobilization, or 2) the Arabs would desperately mount a pre-emptive strike to prevent Begin from carrying out annexation...
...uneasy truce, so it could probably learn to live with old-line heretics like Ignatius. No sweat--it might even learn to live with Harvard, which isn't easy. Everybody living with everyone else in peace and truth and veritas! It sounded like either the Sermon on the Mount of something from the Gazette. I couldn't figure out which. But it didn't really matter...
Realizing the seriousness of his dilemna, the jockey leapt from his mount and began a frenzied dash after the pack, which was already approaching the first turn. He finished a respectable fourth, just missing the Win, Place and Show money...
Anti-Tire Forces. Not everyone has admired Heidelberger's Mount Baldy. The Andover town board, charging that the tires had become a breeding ground for rats and mosquitoes, repeatedly tried to force him to get rid of them. The state, worried about a fire hazard, once demanded that he bury his tires individually, 2 ft. deep and 4 ft. apart. "There's not enough land in the state to bury all my tires," snorted Heidelberger...
...fighting for a non-Marxist civilian government and deny charges that they plan to restore a monarchy under Haile Selassie's sole surviving son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, 60, who is now in London. About 1,000 shiftas-armed nomads of the Western Somali Liberation Front-periodically mount hit-and-run attacks along the Somali frontier...