Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hite Report stands as a polemic and a pep talk. See, she's telling all her readers, most women are absolutely normal when they fall short of the avidity that Playboy and Penthouse magazines try to fob off on them. Women can overcome their sexual dependencies--the last stronghold of a male-dominated society--only if they make demands, and both men and women will be better off when that happens...
...When they arrived at the Moslem leftist stronghold of Aley, the highest-ranking commander of the Palestine Liberation Organization there leapt out of his Land Rover to greet his Syrian counterpart. They saluted formally, shook hands, embraced and finally kissed. Everyone was smiling. In the car on the way back to Beirut, the Palestinian commander said: 'I wish they had done this from the beginning, moving into both sides. I hope they never leave Lebanon.' The Syrians, however, were received coolly in Christian areas. At Jounieh civilians on the roadside looked grim, and two militiamen standing with their...
...YORK. Second District-Incumbent Thomas Downey (D) v. Peter Co-halan (R-Conservative): Downey, 27. youngest member of Congress, is aging fast. Fifth District-Allard Lowenstein (D-Liberal) v. Incumbent John Wydler (R-Conservative): Lowenstein is a long-shot in this Republican stronghold...
...Buddhist pilgrims braving high winds and sub-zero temperatures had made their way along some of the world's tallest mountains in central Kashmir. Most came on foot, some by yak, the more affluent by treacherous day-long Jeep or bus rides. Their destination: Leh, a remote stronghold of the Tibetan culture that had been selected by the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled God-King, for a rare spiritual event...
Though the government has been able to harry the N.P.A. by military force, the rebel movement still shows signs of considerable strength. Over the past four years, N.P.A. activity has spread from its original coastal stronghold of Isabela in northern Luzon all the way through the rural areas of the Eastern Archipelago Provinces and even to parts of Mindanao, which is also troubled by the far larger rebellion of Moslem separatists. Though the N.P.A.'s armed strength may be no more than 2,000 to 3,000, its political activists, drawn largely from educated urban youths, are probably...