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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Kremlin is well aware of Byrd's key role in this fall's treaty debate and agreed to a private meeting between him and Brezhnev, who is vacationing in the Crimea. Byrd is expected to tell the Soviet leader that any further pronouncements like Gromyko's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Senate and the Soviets | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

The issue was abortion, and the fight was supposed to have been settled in 1973 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a state may not prevent a woman from having an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy until the fetus is presumably capable of "meaningful life outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Fanatical Abortion Fight | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Hong Kong, with nearly 5 million people crammed into 404 sq. mi., has long been one of the world's most crowded spots. Today the British crown colony is trying to fight off a veritable invasion of refugees. In addition to the "boat people" arriving by sea from Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Fighting a Refugee Invasion | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

In Nicaragua, the center-right Broad Opposition Front and the business-oriented Supreme Council of Private Enterprise endorsed the Sandinistas' five-member provisional government. Panama's Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera welcomed three of its members to his capital with a military band, honor guard and government-arranged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: More Blasts from the Bunker | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Caught off-guard by the depth of hostility to Somoza's corrupt reign, the Carter Administration has floundered in its pursuit of a response. U.S. intelligence officials did produce evidence that Havana has supplied some weapons to the rebels, several of whom were trained in guerrilla tactics in Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: More Blasts from the Bunker | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

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