Word: rift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after such consultation, the Palestinians refuse to run for office in the West Bank and Gaza, the "autonomy" road will have turned into a dead end. The U.S., in order to heal its rift with the Arabs other than Egypt--a rift that may have serious effects on the price and quantities of Saudi oil--will have to find a new way, and return to the idea of a comprehensive settlement. If, on the contrary, the West Bank Palestinians, while denouncing the autonomy scheme as insufficient, decide, in agreement with the PLO and Jordan, to run for office...
...Republican Club: sponsors of a tepid invitation to Richard Nixon, who wisely chose not to speak at Harvard. The invitation itself, though, caused a massive rift in the club. Joining this one means you are a good candidate for getting corraled into a lot of schlock work...
...Pioneer spacecraft: one a radar-equipped orbiter still spewing data, the other a multiple probe that dropped five instrument packages into the Venusian atmosphere. Among the findings: the neighboring planet has an extraordinary five-layered cloud cover, is riddled by continuous lightning bolts and scarred by a rift valley and mountain peak more grandiose than any on earth, and has totally unexpected abundances of primordial neon and argon. Their presence suggests new ideas about the nature of the great cloud of gases and dust from which the sun and planets were born...
Also the growing rift between oil haves and have-nots widened further at the conference. Recent oil price increases will swell the collective current-accounts deficit of the non-OPEC LDCs this year by $5 billion, to a total $57 billion, and additional raises will grossly enlarge the gap. The Costa Rican delegation mustered some support from other oil-deficient Latin American countries for its proposal that OPEC consult with the importing LDCS before it raises prices again. But African and Asian delegations squelched the resolution partly out of fear that the OPEC nations might reduce their...
...rift between French and English Canada, between its industrialized center and its resource-rich west, was all too evident as the votes rolled in last week for the 282 seats in the newly enlarged Parliament (up from 264). Canada's 14.9 million voters divided along linguistic lines; French-speaking voters overwhelmingly supported Trudeau's Liberals, while most of the 60.2% of the population that claims English as its first or only language backed Clark's Conservatives. The result was a Tory plurality in Parliament: 136 seats for the Conservatives, 114 for the Liberals, 26 for the mildly...