Word: reached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when a concussion grenade ruptured his lungs and caused internal hemorrhaging. At least 100 demonstrators and ten police were hurt, including some on both sides who lost hands or feet when concussion grenades exploded prematurely. The environmentalists, neatly bottled up on a narrow road, never had a chance to reach the nuclear site a mile from the battlefield, and their cause ended up as another casualty in the confusion. "What does beating up flics have to do with nuclear energy?" asked one disgusted demonstrator huddling in the chill rain. Scolded the newspaper Quotidien de Paris: "The notion of defense...
...helped to touch off riots in Cairo and intra-government disagreements in Peru. When the dictatorial Peruvian regime refused to impose IMF restrictions last month, both the head of the Central Bank and the Finance Minister resigned in protest. No doubt the IMF and the private banks will reach an accommodation with Peru, possibly by stretching out debt repayments...
...those who died in the hospital during the period before the mix-up was discovered were both stunned and resentful. Housewife Evelyn Erskine, whose 61-year-old mother died suddenly last January after treatment of a respiratory condition, filed the first of many expected lawsuits that could eventually reach millions of dollars. "They had Mother on oxygen, and they were having problems," she says. A doctor came out to discuss the treatment. Mrs. Erskine recalls, "By the time the doctor went back in, she had died...
British Science Writer Adrian Berry is an incorrigible optimist. In The Next Ten Thousand Years he boldly disputed today's Cassandras by predicting that man would not only thrive but reach the far-off stars. Now Berry describes how earthlings might actually take that quantum leap. He advises the emigrants, literally, to jump into black holes...
...international money markets, and the Government's report of a record monthly foreign trade deficit of $2.82 billion for June. For the first six months of the year, imports outpaced exports by $12.6 billion, and official estimates are that the deficit for all of 1977 could reach an alltime record of $25 billion-nearly triple last year's total...