Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couldn't the Navy leave the rocks in Antarctica? Because the twelve-nation 1959 treaty on Antarctica bans disposal of any radioactive material there...
...year). Sadat could take such action only if the P.L.O. and the other Arabs dealt themselves out, but he certainly could not do it at a time when the Israelis, quite apart from refusing to withdraw from the lands they already occupy, are busy roaming over yet another Arab nation's territory. With rising anger, Sadat criticized Israel at week's end for "killing innocent civilians under the pretext of guaranteeing its security. We condemn such acts," he added, "as we have condemned earlier the massacre of Israeli civilians...
...when Arab armies had been roundly defeated and the underground Palestinians emerged as the most heroic and effective anti-Israel group around. But the Arab dislike of Palestinians arises largely from the fact that under the British, who ruled Palestine through a League of Nations mandate for 30 years after World War I, they became the best-educated people in the region. They have produced more doctors, lawyers, teachers and scientists (Arafat is an engineer by training) than any Arab nation, and their women are the most liberated in the Arab world...
Terrorism has seriously afflicted Italy for four sorry years, but no instance of kidnaping, extortion or assassination has ever before so enraged the nation or so threatened its tenuous political posture. As chairman of the Christian Democrats, Moro was the architect of the carefully devised political formula that had finally brought the Communists into the parliamentary majority. A law professor, he was noted as a conciliator and master of the anomalous solution that enabled disparate political forces to find common ground. He was, in fact, the leading candidate to succeed Giovanni Leone as Italian President...
...violent protest that brought France to a virtual standstill, had the Fifth Republic wavered so precariously on a political pinpoint. Challenging the center-right government of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was the combined appeal of an alliance of Socialists and Communists. All the nation's polling organizations had predicted that the leftists would come out on top in the first of two Sunday rounds of parliamentary elections. Then, with the left having gained momentum from a first-round victory, the second round of balloting, held on March 19, could paralyze Giscard's presidency...