Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hostile nations of the Middle East greeted the new move warily, since direct big-power participation in the search for a settlement will inevitably bring weight to bear on them to make concessions. Israelis took some comfort from the avowed U.S. intention to bolster the mission of U.N. Special Representative Gunnar Jarring, and expected no change in Washington's support for a "contractual" rather than an "imposed" solution. But they did worry that the U.S. would seek to influence Israel to vacate the conquered Arab territories. "We may find ourselves faced by political pressures of a nature never encountered...
Determined Drive. FULRO's strength has been considerably augmented by troopers trained by U.S. Special Forces teams, which since 1963 have been turning tribesmen into skillful jungle fighters in increasing numbers. Once trained and equipped, the "yards" (short for Montagnards) displayed an unhappy tendency to join FULRO when their enlistment was up, feeling that the Saigon government posed more problems for them than the Viet Cong. Last year .Saigon officials mounted another determined drive to bring FULRO over to their side, and the Ban Me Thuot ceremonies testified to the partial success of that effort...
...Earl of Cranbrook feeds his pet bats on a special mixture of egg yolk, cream cheese and banana. He says, "I keep the bats for about three months, then let them go." When the late Jayne Mansfield tried to smuggle her two Chihuahuas into England, she won the sympathy of the pet-fancying British public by clutching the animals to her celebrated chest and proclaiming, "They appeal to my mother instinct." Ronald Reagan, finding that he was getting on badly with his mongrel, put himself and the dog through a $250 course of psychotherapy at a Beverly Hills ca nine...
...alligators for drives, buy hairpieces for dogs and lacetrimmed nightgowns for cats, give the puma a pint of beer as a nightcap, and make unnecessary gourmet viands the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. petfood market. Some owners bury their canaries and pooches under massive marble tombstones in special cemeteries. Only last week, an Italian court ruled that a wife was justified in leaving her husband because he regularly shared his bedroom with 30 cats and six dogs while forcing her to sleep in another room...
...Even given the special interest of political leaders," says Johnson, "there is now a serious imbalance in the reporting of news." He cited a "brilliant satire" written by Meg Greenfield of the Washington Post about the reporting of the 1968 election campaign...