Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, it agreed to 1) call a conference of all Moslem nations, which may take months to organize, if it comes off at all; and 2) convene the 14-nation Joint Defense Council, but not until November. The four countries most deeply involved in the anti-Israel fight, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq, may meet somewhat sooner to try to coordinate their efforts...
...influence only if they succeed in substantially improving Arab military capability. As the Arabs improve under Russian tutelage, however, they will grow increasingly impatient to tackle the Israelis once more-and invite another humiliation. As one Russian military adviser recently told an East European ambassador in Cairo, it will take "a generation" for Egyptian military skills to exceed Israel's. Whether the Egyptians or their brethren in other Arab lands will want to wait that long is, to say the least, questionable...
...calls the novelist "the direct descendant of Walther von der Vogelweide," a poet who in the 13th century stumped the German dukedoms in support of Kaiser Friedrich II's struggle to become Holy Roman Emperor. "Grass," says Schwarz, "is the only great German writer in 700 years to take such a direct part in politics, laying aside the pen in favor of straight participation...
Some five hours after Kapwepwe's resignation, Kaunda went on radio to declare a state of siege on the grounds that rising tribal tension was "splitting the nation." Moving to take over personal control of the United Party, Kaunda suspended its constitution, abolished its faction-ridden Central Committee, and sacked all of its officers-including No. 2 Man Simon Kapwepwe. "A change is absolutely necessary if we are to survive," said Kaunda...
...small-town newspaper. The author obediently follows the ancient code of the village novelist. Her spinsters come in only two styles: dotty or drunk. Her clergyman predictably wrestles with doubt. The young girls are either uptight virgins or "fast." Most of the time the novel seems to take place-and to be written-around the turn of the century...