Word: nov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over the courts, which would happen if judges were allowed to declare laws unconstitutional. Another is the sheer slowness of change in Britain. But after his success at Strasbourg, Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans promised to do his best to speed it along. If the Sunday Times, closed since Nov. 30 in a dispute with its printers, ever resumes publishing, Evans says he intends to challenge the contempt laws by reporting on important cases under trial...
...vanished, as has that of László Peri, a Hungarian sculptor who died in 1967. His concrete wall plaques, so tersely unbeautiful and confident in their "shaped canvas" eccentricity, remind one how many of the concerns of today's nominally advanced sculpture, which presumably seems nov el to those who make it, were threshed over and done better half a century...
...Nov. 22, 1967. The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopts Resolution 242, calling for recognition of Israel's sovereignty but also for withdrawal of Israeli troops from occupied territory and for settlement of the Palestine refugee problem. Israel holds on to conquered territories...
...counterattacks reach to within 20 miles of Damascus and across the Suez into Egypt. Heavy losses on both sides. The oil-producing states announce a cutoff of exports to nations supporting Israel, and oil prices soon quadruple. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger finally negotiates a cease-fire on Nov...
...Nov. 19, 1977. Sadat flies to Jerusalem and tells the Knesset that Egypt is ready to make peace but Israel must return Arab lands...