Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN IT'S 92 in the shade it's a dangerous time. Hot, sweltering, no relief until nightfall. Most of life's social niceties and buffer zones have boiled off and what is left is raw will. Thomas McGuane's latest book contains two raw wills, lying as crisp and on edge as dry leaves, ready to burst into flames the moment pressure is magnified. But these particular wills belong to two people who thoroughly know their principles and their capacity for deliberate action. When the collision comes they summon up with heroic energy the grace to die well...
Relations between the Israelis and the Egyptians at Kilometer 101 were described by a U.N. man as "good." At that point in the wilderness, the trucks carrying relief supplies for the remnant of the Third Army, which is surrounded on the east bank, move into Israeli-held territory. We saw an example of the little courtesies that hostile army officers sometimes allow one another when battles have ended. An Israeli officer passed out some fresh fruit; an Egyptian reciprocated with eau de cologne. The Egyptian told his Israeli counterpart: "Since no one really knows who won this war, the chances...
Sand-colored five-ton Egyptian trucks with relief supplies from Cairo for the Third Army lumbered past Kilometer 101 into Israeli-held territory in the direction of the city of Suez. The drivers were U.N. noncommissioned officers. About ten miles north of Suez, a truck with cartons of food and cigarettes had arrived at U.N. observation post Kilo-a collection of whitewashed shacks on the edge of the canal. There we talked with Vienna-born Joseph Nekhan, 27, a first lieutenant in an Austrian tank battalion who had been seconded to the U.N. Emergency Force. Below him, Egyptian soldiers...
...Sigh of Relief. Separatism, warned Bourassa, would force Quebec to create a new currency, which would immediately lose value in relation to the Canadian dollar. This was the single most devastating attack against the Parti Québécois. The Liberals were also helped by their undeniably good economic record. In Bourassa's 3½ years as Premier, his government had created a vast social welfare program-including free medical and dental care-without raising taxes. New industries were blossoming, and unemployment had dropped from 10% to less than...
Outside Quebec, politicians, regardless of party affiliation, heaved a sigh of relief when returns indicated a resounding defeat for the Parti Québécois. Said a satisfied Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who heads the national Liberal Party: "Quebeckers prefer Canada to separatism...