Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OPEC adds injury to insult when hardliners like Iran and Libya keep threatening to cut back production in order to prop up prices. Remarked one middle-of-the-road delegate: "You just cannot believe how greedy these Iranians have become. They think they have invented the wheel." One of the cartel's greediest leaders, Libya's strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, touched off a mini-panic on Wall Street at week's end. An Arab magazine quoted him as threatening to halt Libyan oil exports for up to four years and appealing to other oil producers...
...week General Alexander Meigs Haig Jr., 54, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, narrowly escaped death from an unidentified terrorist's bomb as he motored to NATO military headquarters in Casteau, Belgium. The blast missed Haig's Mercedes 600 limousine but blew a crater in the road, slightly injured three of his security guards and damaged their car. Two days later, Haig was jetting about Europe in a U.S. Air Force DC-9, receiving 17-gun farewell salutes. Said British Major General Geoffery B. Wilson: "We rejoice that you were spared [in the bombing], and we know...
...best music when he assumes a persona--that's become one of the cliches of rock journalism, but it's true. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars defined a hard-hitting, loud, fast rock sound four years before the Ramones hit the road. To make that album in 1972, Bowie set himself up as the glittery, self-destructive androgyne Ziggy. More masks followed, dizzingly, along with more fine albums--Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Station to Station, and a popular if antiseptic excursion into Philadelphia funk, Young Americans. Then it was off into the beckoning...
...rally, thousands of demonstrators trekked down an access road lined with hawkers trying to sell "No Nuke" t-shirts, and pamphleteers who would attempt to convince you that nuclear power was not only dangerous, it was racist, sexist, militaristic, anti-gay and a tool of imperialist capitalistic corporate exploitation as well. Then past tables filled with anti-nuke and alternative energy literature and finally down a dirt path to the beach, were old reliables like Dave Dellinger, former anti-war activist, and George Wald, Emeritus Professor of Biology, would speak and Pete Seeger and others entertain. Just before noon...
Those at the rally realized that much of the action would be going on down the road at the plant, but listened attentively as speakers condemned nukes and urged their extinction. Then, at about 2:30 p.m., came an electrifying message: "We have a special announcement to make: 560 people have just gone over the fence at Shoreham." The crowd roared out its approval, at the action and at the number...