Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...document. The papal instruction was issued last October to establish a uniform Church position towards the United Nations' World Population Year. According to The Times, the document urges "mobilisation of all legitimate forms of pressure on governments and international agencies in order to have Catholic teaching on birth control spread as far as possible and accepted as widely as possible...
...sores throughout the region, providing the barest relief to half a million people. Their individual monthly ration is only 26 Ibs. of flour and 4.4 Ibs. of dried milk, the nutritional equivalent of about one-third of the average American's diet. In their weakened condition, disease has spread quickly. Typhus, dysentery, measles and gastroenteritis are rampant. At the teeming Lazaret camp near Niamey, Niger's capital, cholera threatens the 15,000 refugees. In Chad, some emaciated nomads begged a U.N. official not to send them medicines, pleading that death from diphtheria was quicker and hence easier than...
...spread as facts. You see you could even write a novel with the facts...
Doctors at Tokyo's First National Hospital have discovered one way to prevent middle-age spread: jungle living. They ran some 200 tests on ex-Lieut. Hiroo Onoda, 52, the diehard loyalist who returned home triumphantly after nearly 30 years in a Philippines jungle, where he had continued fighting World War II. The findings: Onoda is healthier than most of his contemporaries who live off the fat of the land. His body is supple, his muscle tone is good and his animal instincts are honed: his eyes move constantly, he hears clothing brush against skin, and he wakes fully...
...investigators practice new tactics, new aggressiveness, with New York particularly showing the way. A patrolman caught on the take used to be prosecuted quickly and forgotten; now he is often "turned" and used to trap higher-ups. The spread of uniformed informers is matched by the proliferation of bugs planted everywhere but inside badges. A blizzard of accountants and other financial sleuths now trace credit cards and checking accounts because, says Jonathan Goldstein, U.S. prosecutor for New Jersey, often "it's just a matter of finding the money...