Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quake, President Velasco sailed into Chimbote aboard the navy cruiser Coronel Bolognesi to survey the destruction. Velasco, an army general who seized power in 1968, and had just begun to check inflation and whittle down the budget deficit when the disaster struck, ordered $16 million set aside for relief and reconstruction. A dozen other countries rushed aid-including the U.S., which sent the helicopter carrier Guam, despite Washington's displeasure with Velasco for his seizure of a U.S.-owned oil company. It will take vast sums to repair the effects of a catastrophe that has left 800,000 homeless...
Also intended for Back Bay is Bill Jacobson's wall-long relief sculpture for the side of a building. Made of pieces like old railroad ties and used industrial lumber, its strong vertical and horizontal lines recall the rectilinear urban grid of the area. And the material corroborates the Populist sentiment that "wood is good"-a needed counterpoint for an increasingly steel city...
...will continue to hit any Communist buildups in the sanctuaries. The ban against U.S. advisers operating in Cambodia seems firm, and thus close U.S. combat air support seems unlikely -though if a large South Vietnamese unit were threatened with defeat, the U.S. could hardly fail to come to its relief with fighter-bombers, helicopters and cargo flights...
...peasants were angry at becoming pawns in war. Imam Mousa Sadr, religious leader of the Shia, called an effective one-day strike last week that even curtailed operations at Beirut airport and forced foreign jets to divert to Istanbul. The government quickly voted $8,500,000 in relief funds for the refugees, but Mousa Sadr threatened more strikes unless his people and their homes were protected...
...flaws, of its arthritic seniority system and quirky procedures. No House Speaker has voluntarily retired to private life since 1903. When McCormack announced last week that after 42 years he would leave Congress at the end of his term in January, the news evoked a sense of relief in Washington...