Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first half, although they launched few good shots. The Crimson, in fact, had the best early chance as Mauro Keller-Sarmiento trapped a feed from the side and boomed a hard, turn-around shot from the right corner of the penalty box that ricocheted off the top of the near upright...
...painter set down his toolbox on the sidewalk near City Hall long enough to say he is "dubious" about national health insurance...
...soon enough for the most nationalistic Panamanians, who oppose the provisions that give the U.S. the military right to guarantee the canal's security in perpetuity. Lieut. General Dennis McAuliffe is retiring as commander of the 9,200 U.S. troops who will remain in bases near the canal. As the takeover neared, he expressed concern: "I know they will be coming in here planting little Panamanian flags all over the place. Some will even be planting flowers. I just hope they are not going to be planting rocks...
...began, "writes Kissinger, "the gods of war were inspecting their armaments, for it was clear they would soon be needed." Israeli bombers were conducting "deep penetration " raids on Cairo and the Nile Delta. Moscow was installing its most sophisticated surface-to-air missiles near the Nile and the Suez Canal, and at least 15,000 Soviet combat personnel were in Egypt to operate and defend the sites. Despite the growing danger of an Egyptian-Israeli war, however, the biggest blowup of 1970 occurred in Jordan. Twice in three months, Palestinian guerrillas tried to assassinate Jordan's King Hussein. When...
...moment though, the Chinese seem especially interested in American brainpower. At almost every stop on the tour-at a seismological observatory outside Peking, at an electronics plant in Changzhou (Changchow), at hospitals in Shanghai, in scenic Hangzhou (Hangchow) and at fisheries near Canton-we were told of leading American scientists who had already been there...