Word: six
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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June 5-10,1967. Fearing attack, Israel strikes first. In just six days, it seizes the Sinai Peninsula, Syria's Golan Heights and all of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem...
...sunny Saturday the couple, along with their lawyer, Steve Schlosser, and six of their closest friends, leaped out of three planes flying 10,500 ft. above the airport in Antioch, Calif. The plan called for Gene to hand over the papers to Schlosser, who would in turn relay them to Lynda. Then everybody would form a ring and give Lynda a kiss before yanking their ripcords and coming down to earth...
...host of personal and political crises, including several of his transient flings with other women. In an interview last week with the magazine Stern, she attributed the impending divorce to "not just one reason but an accumulation of things." The main thing seemed to be Brandt's six-month-long involvement with Brigitte Seebacher, 32, a political assistant. Fumed former State Secretary Egon Bahr: "At Brandt's age, what nonsense...
Rhoodie contends that at least six Cabinet ministers, including P.W. Botha, knew about the information department's connection with The Citizen, as well as its role in other secret projects. All the officials concerned have denied this allegation, but the scandal has already led to the resignation of one ranking Cabinet member: former Minister of Information Cornelius P. Mulder, who was Rhoodie's supervisor. Some observers believe Vorster must surely have known about the slush fund; there are also suspicions that his awareness of the impending scandal may have been an important reason behind his sudden retirement...
...group of 48 Roundtable member firms, among them AT&T, General Motors, Exxon, Procter & Gamble, Dow Chemical and Eastman Kodak, were examined for the added costs caused in 1977 by just six federal regulatory agencies and programs. The total: $2.6 billion, which was equal to about 16% of the companies' net profits, 10% of their capital expenditures and 40% of their R. & D. budgets for the year. IBM Chairman Frank Gary, who supervised the study, reckoned that the $2.6 billion figure, extrapolated to cover the whole U.S. economy, would yield an overall cost of regulation that is "not inconsistent...