Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saladin. Not until the 20th century did tensions begin to approach their present peak: with the formation of Israel in 1948, thousands of Jews began to leave their longtime Arab homes. For the 75,000-odd who still remain in Arab countries, life has become increasingly harsh during the past few years...
Delphic Marxism. In the past, most nonmilitary research was collected piecemeal from various study centers. The one really systematic attempt to keep scholarly pace involved science; translated editions of U.S. technical journals were distributed regularly to Soviet specialists. The official attitude on other subjects altered two years ago, when the Communist Party Central Committee severely criticized the state of Soviet social science research. As a result of this turnabout, Russian specialists began taking a new look at dozens of U.S. phenomena-from the rebellion of youth, which has its parallels in Russia, to the glut of automobile traffic, which...
...past year, the un easiness of Spain's military leaders had come to focus on five major areas: the press, the lawyers, labor, the church and the universities...
...rest of the world, Switzerland is a land of placid tranquillity and order nestling amid picture-postcard scenery. Yet of late it has been the scene of doings that would make the ministrants of Rosemary's Baby blush. For the past four weeks, the gruesome evidence has poured forth in a Zurich courtroom. On trial are six people, including Joseph Stocker, 61, a defrocked and excommunicated South German priest, and his fanatically religious mistress, Magdalena Kohler, 54. The charge...
...often before in its frenetic past, the Ramparts staff was locked in debate over its future. Typically, it was letting mini-skirted secretaries and bearded writers have as much say as its directors. The argument was not over policy but money; Ramparts needs at least $300,000 to clear its debts. No one believed that both Ramparts and a competitor could survive. The question was whether the staff should follow Mitchell's plan to reorganize while in bankruptcy and seek new funding, or buy Hinckle's idea of starting all over under a new name. Said Mitchell...