Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...timing could hardly have been worse-or better, depending upon one's viewpoint. Shortly after Secretary of State Henry Kissinger flew from Washington last week to begin the most crucial Middle East negotiations he has undertaken so far, a small band of seaborne Palestinian commandos in a rubber dinghy landed on the Israeli coast at Tel Aviv. The havoc they caused, in a daring and bloody raid on Israel's biggest city, complicated Kissinger's already difficult chances for bringing about a second-stage disengagement agreement between Israel and Egypt...
...chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who is regarded by many Arabs as a relatively moderate Palestinian leader. The raid, Fatah spokesmen explained, was to hamper the peacemaking efforts of the U.S. Secretary of State, who has steadfastly refused to consider undertaking any negotiations with the P.L.O. On the rubber boat that brought the fedayeen ashore in Tel Aviv, Israeli officials found a crudely scrawled English graffito: KISSINGER'S EFFORTS WILL FAIL...
...Jetzon Tire and Rubber Co. of Bridgeport, Conn., is mailing customers checks for $12 after purchase of each set of four tires...
...those who expect that the recommendations of the Strauch Committee may be rubber-stamped through the Faculty and the Governing Boards of Harvard and Radcliffe because they have long been expected, one hard reality remains: If the admissions offices are merged, Radcliffe College and its Trustees will be giving up the last claim they have to women undergraduates in the University...
...speak openly of the "military Mafia"-high-ranking officers who sell deferments to rich Sino-Khmer fathers and draw the pay of thousands of phantom troops on their rolls. Out on Route 5 and Highway 7, and down in besieged Neak Luong, government soldiers are fighting the war in rubber sandals and soft hats. One corporal complained about the lack of boots and fatigues and how corrupt officers tried to make his wife pay 5,000 riels ($3.25) to come to visit him. What he did not know is that many military experts say there is only a three-week...