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...years the most popular documentary film series in the U.S.; of kidney failure and pneumonia; in Flemington, N.J. De Rochemont was credited with some of M.O.T.'s most memorable films, including The Story of the Vatican, the first full-length feature on the papal state made with the sanction of the Holy...
...loan guarantees from the federal Commodity Credit Corporation are used mainly for financing the sale of American agricultural products abroad; but Argentina is a major agricultural exporter, especially to the Soviet Union, and was expected to receive only $2 million in loan guarantees this year. The most important sanction was on credits from the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which will affect $500 million in Argentine purchases of hydroelectric equipment. Despite the sanctions, the U.S. would remain among Argentina's largest foreign trading partners. Argentina last year bought $2.2 billion worth of goods from...
Lebanon and Syria: Upon leaving Jordan unwillingly, the PLO set up camp in Lebanon in 1970. Israel had never meddled in Lebanon until that point. Though Golda Meir made it clear that Israel would not sanction terrorists to its north, Lebanon permitted the PLO to gain a foothold. Joining with indigenous leftist forces, the PLO raided Christian cities until Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad came to the phalangists' aid and began fighting the Palestinians and their Lebanese allies. Assad had observed Hussein's problems and worried about a PLO ascendance...
...during the stormy reign of King Henry VIII, the play revolves around the events leading up to Sir Thomas More's execution for refusing to sanction Henry's divorce of his first wife to marry his mistress Anne Boleyn. Henry doesn't require More's permission as his chancellor to marry again: he merely wants the approval of his friend to the point he will kill More if he doesn't sign his name to a piece of paper, condoning the marriage...
...beginning of World War III. Yet if they were not there, and the black bag in their charge were not within the President's easy reach, he would be unable to preserve and enforce a balance of power between East and West; he would no longer embody the sanction of American force necessary to restrain the nation's adversaries. In that case, the world would be an even more dangerous place than it is with one of these four officers constantly at the President's side...