Word: tant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...below, where fruit trees were blossoming in contrast to the snow above, the fighting on the mountain was already having a profound political effect. Syria's President Hafez Assad, in Moscow last week on a six-day visit, got the kind of reception reserved for much more impor tant chiefs of government. At a Krem lin dinner for Assad, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev promised the Syrian President unlimited amounts of Soviet planes, missiles and other armament to replace Syrian losses to Israel in the October war. The reason, Brezhnev explained, was that the Russians were not able...
...romps sardonically over the history, sociology and psychology of America's love affair with the gat with out getting bogged down in the theoretical musings of experts. The over whelming evidence of his senses seems sufficient. His best achievement is to report fully and clearly the most impor tant facts about guns: they are a huge, influential business. Last year alone, Americans spent $581.6 million for fire arms and ammunition...
...universal sense of justice." The jury deliberated over four days and finally returned not-guilty ver dicts on all counts. Though only 17 of the 28 stood trial, the Government said it would recommend dropping charges against the remaining defendants. It was a "verdict against the war," said Assis tant U.S. Attorney John Barry...
...machines were collapsing all over the country, Daley's was sticking together. Boss doesn't explain why this is so, but it suggests ?? lot of contributing factors. The most obvious ?? Daley's mastery of timing. When Chicago was hi?? with a police scandal, Daley was not at all relu??tant to fire his police commissioner and appoint?? blue-ribbon candidate, a nationally recognized e?? pert on criminology. This removed the police from his control and even improved the force. But?? saved Daley and the machine: better to take o?? step back than to lose your legs. Wilson eventua?? retired...