Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington is annoyed by Israel's policy of beefing up civilian settlements in the occupied territories and by its air and artillery attacks-using U.S. equipment-on Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon. At week's end, Palestinian sources in Beirut claimed that Israel had launched an armored strike into southern Lebanon in retaliation for a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem that killed two Israelis and wounded 42 others. The Israeli high command denied that it had mounted any such attack. Despite the forced resignation of U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, the Israelis fear that Washington is secretly planning to establish...
...little evidence of the sense of humor some of our experts had detected beneath the glacial exterior. Either my only attempt to strike a light tone backfired, or else Kosygin's humor was too subtle for me. At the end of the summit, we boarded a Soviet plane. To the considerable chagrin of our Soviet hosts, its engines refused to start. Kosygin stormed on the plane and said: "Tell us what you want to do with our Minister of Aviation. If you want him shot on the tarmac we will do so." He looked as if he might...
Falwell enjoys taking big risks, like starting up a new college from scratch in less than a year, as he did with Liberty Baptist College, begun in 1971. Now Falwell is betting that his views, values and chauvinist spirit will strike a plangent chord in the hearts of millions of conservative Protestants, many of whom have thus far been politically apathetic...
...time of the strike last spring, B.U. President John R. Silber warned that if faculty members won the salaries they were requesting, B.U. might not have enough money to retain junior professors...
Boston University (B.U.) has been a minefield of labor blow-ups for five years, ever since it became the first major private university in the country with a faculty union. A lengthy strike last April by professors, secretaries and librarians ended with a contract faculty officials said would end the problems...