Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agricrime has become so bad in the state of California that the annual loss in crops and machinery is estimated at $30 million. Avocados and artichokes are among the hottest of the hot crops. Observes Gerhardt Clasen, an avocado grower in the town of Fallbrook: "Thieves can strip a tree in half an hour and get $15 for their work." Even more amazing, according to Edward Boutonnet, who is chairman of the California Artichoke Advisory Board, are "the sightseers who stop their cars and pick our artichokes. They're affluent doctors and lawyers and people like that. You confront...
...Israeli League for Human Rights, which Shahak heads, is a non-political group focusing primarily on discrimination against Palestinians, both those living under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and those who are Israeli citizens. In an interview last week, Shahak cited the fight against conditions of administrative imprisonment in the conquered territories as his current preoccupation. He is particularly concerned with the case of a West Bank resident, a physics teacher at the Beir Zeit college north of Jerusalem, who has been imprisoned 41 months now without a warrant or trial...
...spear-carrying tribesmen of Papua New Guinea-homeland of the cargo cults and of islanders who once regarded L.B.J. as a demigod-have a new Western hero to worship. No, not the Fonz or Jimmy Carter, but the masked comic-strip marvel who lives in the Skull Cave of Bangalla-namely, the Phantom...
...helpim mi nau?" Meaning: "Phantom, you are a true friend of mine. Are you able to help me now?") Circulation of the paper began to climb. Illiterates bought their copies and then waited patiently for public readings of their hero's latest adventure. Taking advantage of the strip's popularity, the government hung posters of the Phantom in villages to drive home its pleas for tooth-brushing and the substitution of protein-rich peanuts for starch in diets (the natives swiped the posters for the walls of their huts...
...natives may have to do without their favorite unless a dispute over syndication rights to the strip is resolved. Local rights to The Phantom have long been owned by the nation's sole daily newspaper, the Post-Courier, which publishes The Phantom in English, not pidgin. This summer, after the fast-growing Wantok moved to a new and larger plant, the Australian-owned Post-Courier decided to assert its exclusive right to the comic strip, and the local distributor pulled The Phantom from Wan-tok. Says Father Frank Mihalic, editor of Wantok: "I don't see any conflict...