Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Honduras the three-man military junta headed by General Policardo Paz has made a few concessions that may isolate the leftist terrorists who are trying to bring it down. The government paid no more than lip service to Somoza's plea that it crack down on Sandinista bases near the Nicaragua border. "They've made some of the right moves," says a State Department official, "but the violent opposition, which is heavily Marxist, still remains powerful...
...late afternoon sun still seared the dusty streets of Marivan, a scramble of mud and stucco houses on a mountain slope near the Iraq border, as "solidarity" marchers arrived from Sanandaj, the Kurds' provincial capital (pop. 150,000). The more than 2,000 men, women and children had walked the 90 miles of gravel roadway from Sanandaj in four torturous days just so they could, as one of them bluntly put it, "tell the Tehran government to go to hell...
Violent volcanic eruptions shaped the lofty Rockies near by, and today Denver is once again thrusting skyward. This time the earth shakes with 45-ton drilling cranes and six-cylinder Cat loaders constructing skyscrapers of polished granite, cold steel and gleaming glass. As the world price of oil rockets, energy firms are converging on Denver to exploit the surrounding area's resources. With the Administration's proposal to pour out billions in Government money to create synthetic fuel industries, the rush stands to become a stampede. Even if Congress allocates only a fraction of the subsidies that Jimmy...
Department of Agriculture economists contended that the Soviet sales would not lead to a repeat of the 1972 episode, when the Soviets secretly bought nearly 20 million metric tons of U.S. grain and sent domestic food prices through the roof. Under a bilateral grain treaty, the Soviets cannot buy more than 8 million metric tons unless the U.S. has extra supplies. Since stockpiles are ample and a near record harvest is in view, the department's chief economist estimated that the huge Soviet purchases would add only .2% to the cost of living index...
...Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP), a health maintenance organization, has opened a new health care facility near Kenmore Square in Boston...