Word: salient
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...forces, which oppose West Pakistan's rule over the East) had captured portions of five areas, totaling perhaps 60 sq. mi. of real estate. All along the border, artillery exchanges and firefights kept the situation tense and dangerous through the week. Scene of the biggest battle was a slender salient of India that points sharply into East Pakistan some 20 miles west of the Pakistani city of Jessore, an important railhead that leads to key ports on the Bay of Bengal. Early last week, according to a Pakistani general, one battalion of Indian regulars operating alongside a battalion of Mukti...
These bizarre statistics are contained in a once secret staff report released last week by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after five weeks of haggling with the Administration over declassifying its salient points. The figures become even more bizarre when the cost of air operations-one of the figures still classified, but reliably estimated at $1.4 billion-is included, bringing per capita expenditure up to an incredible $900. The report was compiled after a visit to Laos last spring by Richard Moose and James Lowenstein, both former Foreign Service officers, who are the committee's staff experts on Southeast...
...border between countries would be changed in two minor ways. The Latrun salient, a bit of Jordanian land that juts into Israel at the Trappist monastery of Latrun on the road to Jerusalem, would be given to Israel. So would a small chunk of land farther south in the Kfar Etzion area...
...salient mark of their effectiveness, and of Proxmire's own unrelenting exposition of anti-SST arguments in the Senate, is the fact that when the roll call came, 19 Senators who voted against Proxmire last year voted for him this time. Before the vote, Senator Edmund Muskie, long an environmental expert, spoke against the added funds and got Proxmire's thanks. Muskie responded with a grin and a clenched-fist gesture that seemed...
...expose of superstition is vitiated by a focus on the campy quaintness of the old couple and the vulgarity of their revivified daughter (Alaina Warren). The mixing of styles proves particularly annoying in Felder's early appearances as the Devil in military garb: here the low comic vein is salient. With an absurd German accent, Felder conveys about as strong a sense of evil as anyone can with a halfpasted-on moustache and a shrill delivery...