Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elimination" of Latin America and Communist China. "Genocide means never having to say you're sorry," he explains. In response, SDS calls for a demonstration demanding: 1.) pro-rata exclusionary rebates for all scab lettuce; 2.) no reprisals against workers with overdue library books; 3.) restoration of the Sinai Peninsula to the Palestinians. "We will not leave these steps until Racist Boss Wiggins [known to his close personal friends as "Administrative Vice President L. Gard Wiggins"-Ed.] accedes to all our demands," SDS says...
BARBARA PETERSEN lives in Homer, Alaska, a tiny town on the lower Kenai Peninsula to the south of Anchorage. She and her husband Lance lived in Anchorage when Art Davidson had first arrived there, and she got to know Art pretty well from giving him rides whenever she saw him hitchhiking. Barbara is in her mid-thirties; she's a sensitive, articulate woman who refuses to try to be sophisticated and who insists on smiling even when there's pain in her eyes. She worked this summer in Homer's only industry, the Alaska Seafoods cannery, along with a group...
...Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a snowmobiling club planned a fox hunt in which the winner would get to crush the panting beast under his treads (the event was squashed by public outrage). Other drivers play a game called "spooking." The object is to chase a terrified deer (or coyote, wolf or moose) until it drops. Debilitated by winter cold, the animal often dies of exhaustion or pneumonia...
Chattel to Partner. Yet obstacles to full ecclesiastical equality for women still exist throughout a large part of Christendom. Eastern Orthodoxy, retaining its Middle Eastern traditions, is perhaps the slowest to accept women as equals. Women are completely barred, for instance, from even setting foot on the monastic peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece. Women also have a long way to go in Roman Catholicism and Judaism...
...hardy strain of cholera known as El Tor (named for the Egyptian quarantine station where it was first identified). The strain originated more than 30 years ago in the highlands of Indonesia's Celebes Islands. In recent years the disease has spread north to the Korean peninsula and west along the Southeast Asian mainland. After passing through India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, it became a raging epidemic in Iran and Iraq by 1965. There the disease seemed to mark time-at least until a month or so ago, when it resumed its westward march...