Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SINGAPORE calmly allows the Chinese to operate a major bank on its soil, the North Koreans to run endless ads in its newspapers extolling the virtues of Kim Il Sung, and Soviet ships to call at its superb port. The Soviet fleet, says Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, could be a "useful balancing force" to growing Chinese and Japanese power...
Hanoi called the campaign that has pushed at least 10,000 of the original South Vietnamese force of 22,000 back onto home soil in the last three days a "great victory." The U. S. has lost its "biggest gamble," Hanoi declared today, Figures issued from Saigon headquarters showed that government forces had suffered close to 25 per cent casualties...
...bleakest landscape in the U.S. can be found where miners have torn away the earth's surface to get at coal deposits. Huge piles of gray debris, aptly called "orphan soil banks," stand like gravestones over land so scarred and acidic that only rodents can live there. The sight is not rare. Using dynamite, bulldozers, great augers and earth movers, working on the surface rather than below ground, strip miners now produce 37% of the nation's annual coal output. They have already ripped up more than 1,800,000 acres. By 1980, if present trends continue...
There is no solid evidence that any missiles have actually been placed on launchers. Nonetheless, if Pentagon forecasts prove correct, Peking could have a force of 80 to 100 MRBMs, with ranges of 1,000 or more miles and 20-kiloton warheads (Hiroshima size) imbedded deep in Chinese soil by the mid-1970s. The missiles would be no threat to the U.S., but they would be within reach of Peking's Asian neighbors, notably the Soviet Far East...
...have an automatic "right of abode" in the mother country. Other Commonwealth citizens will be subject to the same restrictions as aliens. They will still be British subjects entitled to vote in British elections and even to stand for Parliament the moment they manage to set foot on British soil. But the Commonwealth nonpatrial may enter Britain only if he has a specific job and only for a specific period-normally one year. He must register with the police, show proof of registration when asked, and submit to a wide range of other restrictions. He may be deported...