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...very scant, and very hardy few," I think being a house-spouse during alternate years is a great idea...
...Burma Communist Party launched its first major offensive at the end of 1971 by laying siege to the administrative outpost of Kunlong in the Wa States in the northeasternmost corner of Burma. The intensity of the Communist attack came as a surprise to Rangoon, which had hitherto paid scant attention to the existence of the small and weak party. But between 1968 and 1971, a group of Burmese Communists who had been given ideological training in China set up a strong organization among the peasants of the Shan State. The resulting attack on Kunlong ended in a standoff after...
Hayden moved ahead of the field at the 500-yd. mark, and then held off a late charge by the game Tetlow. Junior Rich Baughman was also nipped by his Princeton opponent, finishing a scant .8 seconds behind Joe Loughran in the battle for third place...
Before the trip, Kissinger was somewhat worried about how much he might be able to accomplish this time round. The Israelis are not exactly fond of the Egyptians, but they have an almost visceral hatred for the Syrians, who until last week had shown scant interest in any negotiated disengagement. But after a late-night meeting with President Hafez Assad in Damascus, Kissinger was authorized to take to Jerusalem a list of the prisoners of war held by Syria. This was a major concession for Assad: Israel had insisted upon having the names of the P.O.W.s before it would even...
...indeed holding back imports because of the U.S. crude allocation. Most oilmen explain the low level of U.S. imports by making two arguments: they must scrupulously observe the Arab embargo because they operate in the Arab countries only with the sufferance of the host governments, and they cannot scant Europe and Japan by shifting non-Arab oil to the U.S. because that would open the oil companies to political attack abroad. Warren Davis, a Gulf economist, says: "We are foreigners in the countries in which we operate, and we have no business trying to influence their governments...