Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to hold on to the lands it conquered eleven years ago. The fiercely devout Begin has introduced a troubling religious factor into the argument by maintaining that events related in the Old Testament give Israel a historic claim to the West Bank. He even insists on calling the region by its Biblical names of Samaria and Judea. He declared to the Knesset: "We did not take strange land; we returned to our homeland. The tie between our nation and this land is eternal...
Much of the corruption has emerged in GSA's Region 3, which includes the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Delaware-an area that accounts for 44% of GSA purchasing. Last week GSA Administrator Jay Solomon announced that 50 indictments are expected in a matter of weeks, most of them involving fraud in the repair and maintenance of federal buildings in Region 3. Eventually, more than 500 indictments are expected nationally...
Bureaucracy, too, has caused problems. Recalls Walter Kallaur, 33, a Harvard-educated financial whiz who served as the GSA's Assistant Administrator before Solomon named him last month as the new chief of Region 3: "A directive went out that federal buildings should be located in downtown areas as part of the Administration's urban policy. We actually had to stop a plan to move a boat-repair shop from the waterfront to the downtown area and have the boats carted to the new location...
Subsequently, two imaginative University of Texas researchers suggested that a tiny black hole had passed through the earth in 1908, causing the mysterious blast that leveled trees for miles around in the Tunguska region of Siberia. But most scientists doubt that explanation. Says Princeton's Ostriker: "A hit by a mini-black hole would have blown up the entire earth...
Unlike his recent predecessors, the new Pontiff has never been a Vatican diplomat, has no experience in the labyrinthine ways of the Roman Curia, and has spent most of his life in the region of northeastern Italy where he was born (he never left Italy before last year, when he visited Brazil). But he is precisely what so many Cardinals said they were looking for: a pastor who shepherds his flock with concern, compassion and a profound sense of the spiritual...