Word: rose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During one of the discussion sessions, a young kibbutznik of 16 or 17 rose and walked over to the banks of the Sea of Galilee, away from the rest of the group. Although reticent at first, he seemed eager to answer questions about his family, life on his kibbutz, and the movement in general...
...lore of a soldier's real or imaginary rights. But when 38,037 Army, Navy and Air Force reservists were called to active duty last January, after North Korea seized U.S.S. Pueblo, their ranks included some professional attorneys. And as the Pueblo crisis dwindled, the reservists' discontent rose. After the Pentagon began shipping some of them off to Viet Nam, the brass was peppered with a rapid fire of writs from soldiers who would rather sue than fight...
...jailed Mario Scares, a lawyer and leading critic of the Salazar regime, a total of 13 times before exiling him without trial last March to the tiny island of Sao Tome in the Gulf of Guinea. The number of legal emigrants and clandestinos voting against Salazar with their feet rose dramatically from 34,000 in 1961 to some...
...tower at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport refused to grant his plane landing clearance and he had to head back into exile in neighboring Thailand. It was a humiliating rebuff for burly "Big Minh,"* the man who ousted Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and who rose to chief of state before he was shelved and then banished in a subsequent coup. Last year Minh tried another route-by filing as a presidential candidate-only to have his application rejected by a military government that was well aware of his excellent chances of winning. Last week, after nearly four...
...long last, the British balance of trade deficit is showing substantial improvement. Almost everyone was pleasantly surprised last week when the Board of Trade announced the August totals of imports and exports. Exports rose $70 million to $1.33 billion. Imports, under the government's austerity program, have decreased from $1.58 bil lion to $1.56 billion since July. The deficit, therefore, was a mere $229 million, the best Britain has done in 14 months...