Word: primed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ahlers even leaked a report that in a message to Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson had attempted to blackmail Bonn into raising the value of the Deutsche Mark by threatening to withdraw Britain's 48,500-man Army of the Rhine from West Germany. In the House of Commons, Wilson flatly denounced Ahlers' story as "quite false." "I deplore this," said the Prime Minister, adding: "I have never known such a thing in four years of communications with over 100 heads of government...
...black-and-white. They will study craters and ridges to see how easily they can be recognized as landmarks. They will plot their position for navigational fixes that will be useful for lunar-landing crews on later missions. On the seventh revolution, they will be able to survey a prime LM landing site at a time when illumination is ideal for observation: the sun will be 6.6° above the horizon, casting the long shadows that best bring out distinctive surface features. During lunar orbit, and on both the outgoing and return legs of the mission, the astronauts will shoot...
...American sacrifice in Vietnam will be worthwhile only if the United States holds out for "at least a partial victory," Lee Kwan Yew, Prime Minster of Singapore, told a crowd of about 125 last night...
...Opposition." Jenkins himself was heckled outside the ministry by Germans who were protesting against British efforts to encourage a mark revaluation. The demonstrators carried placards that read SCHILLER AND STRAUSS, DON'T BE BLACKMAILED! and WILSON, HANDS OFF THE D-MARK!-a reference to a telegram that British Prime Minister Harold Wilson had sent to Chancellor Kiesinger in an effort to enlist West German support for an upward pricing of the mark...
...fedayeen nonetheless succeeded in their purpose of inciting the Israelis and further lessening hopes of peace in the area. Prime Minister Levi Eshkol declared that "the full responsibility for this horrendous incident falls on the head of the Arab states." In the Middle East's familiar dialectic of attack and reprisal, that verdict seemed to leave in doubt only the time and place of Israel's retaliation...