Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sadat must soon be able to show not only his own people but also more intractable Arab leaders that his strategy of trusting Kissinger and going the negotiating route can produce better results than a resumption of fighting. For its part, Israel would prefer an agreement to end the rash of truce violations that have claimed 14 dead and 60 wounded since the ceasefire. In one incident last week, three Israeli soldiers were killed when Syrian mortar shells hit their trench. On the Suez front on election day, there were 72 incidents involving mortar fire, small arms and antitank missiles...
...commando movement's problems is that its strength on the West Bank is unknown, or at least unproved. Probably for that reason, a rash of terrorist incidents broke out there last week. One grenade landed in the Jeep of the military governor of Nablus, Colonel Eliezer Segev, wounding him seriously; the Israelis accordingly imposed a curfew on the town of Nablus for the first time in four years. To the north near the town of Jenin, Israeli troops demolished five houses belonging to Arabs suspected of sabotage...
...cost of housing materials jumped, with a 20% increase in the price of plywood. The cause was a rash of scare buying amid fears that shortages of fuel and glue, an oil derivative, would lead to slowdowns in production. In Oregon, eleven mills, producing 5% of America's plywood, announced that they face complete or partial shutdowns this month...
Hagert quotes Eric Davin's speeches in this piece confirming that he did speak with some candidates. I am incensed that he was willing to make rash and inaccurate statements about me without even paying me the courtesy of checking his facts. Glenn S. Koocher '71 Candidate for Cambridge School Committee
Conviction should be avoided not only because it is rash and precedent-setting, but also because it raises serious political questions. Carl Albert would be a weak executive, under the control of the Democrats in Congress. Gerald Ford would be incompetent, especially in international affairs. Perhaps what will finally keep Nixon in office will be the reluctance of Congress to replace him with either of these...