Word: partings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their destination was simply the open sea. As part of its get-tough policy toward the Vietnamese boat people, who have been arriving on its shores in ever growing numbers, Malaysia in the past two weeks has sent nearly 15,000 Vietnamese refugees back to sea. Malaysia has disposed of 55,000 unwelcome guests in that brutal fashion since Jan. 1, but there are still 76,000 Vietnamese exiles in the country's refugee camps...
Scattered throughout Southeast Asia, the refugee camps have taken on personalities of their own. The Laotian camps in northern Thailand are probably the most satisfactory, in part because the Lao are ethnic cousins of the Thais. The sprawling camp at Nong Khai, with 46,000 people, is larger than the provincial Thai capital. Its inhabitants were able to bring some valuables with them into exile; the camp has a nightclub, several silver shops, a produce market, a makeshift gym and an arts and crafts center. Farther south, camps for Cambodians are little more than barbed-wire enclosures. The Vietnamese camps...
...part, Pakistan denies that it is building a nuclear bomb or that Gaddafi paid for a gas centrifuge plant. Officials do acknowledge that research is being carried out on uranium enrichment, but they insist the fuel will be used only in nuclear reactors. The Pakistanis, however, appear to be getting a bit protective about the project: when the French Ambassador to Pakistan and his First Secretary visited the ruins of an ancient fort 25 miles south of Islamabad last week, they seemed to have wandered too close to where the gas centrifuge factory is being built. They were set upon...
...argued "tirelessly" during 83 days of debate that Title VII would be used neither to require nor permit quotas. Burger said that he would side with the majority if he were a Congressman, but that as a judge he had no business joining in "totally rewriting a crucial part" of the law. Said he: "Congress expressly prohibited the discrimination against Brian Weber the court approves...
Kodak officials were naturally delighted with the decision, though their court troubles may not be over. Berkey may try to appeal Kaufman's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, or it can return to the district court with the part, of its suit that Kaufman said must be retried (this involved alleged abuses by Kodak of its dominant position in the photographic-paper market...