Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hail to the Chief booms out over the assembled dignitaries in the East Room of the White House. The President strides in, smiling broadly. He announces yet another Middle East peace agreement worked out by his ubiquitous Secretary of State, this one between Israel and Jordan. It is the third in a sequence that began a year and a half ago with an Israeli-Egyptian treaty. While he has the rapt attention of his audience, the President reveals that the SALT II agreement signed twelve months earlier has worked so well that the Soviet leadership wants to move...
...youngsters of the Hispanic community make up one-third of Bade County's pupil population, and they score well above other Bade students on English and math achievement tests. They have ready access to bilingual education, and in 1976, 72% went on to college...
...weeks the third-floor apartment at Via Pallanza 6, in an outlying working-class district of Milan, had been staked out by police of Italy's special antiterrorist squad. Visitors to the apartment were photographed as they entered the building and tailed as they left. Finally, the authorities were ready to strike. In a coordinated two-day sweep directed by Carlo Alberto Delia Chiesa, 58, a much-decorated carabinieri general, police arrested nine key members of the terrorist Red Brigades organization, broke into four of their hideouts and confiscated numerous arms and a wealth of material on terrorist activities...
...replied: "Why do you want to set limits on Divine Providence?") Even so, the health factor swiftly eliminated one attractive candidate, Brazil's Aloisio Lorscheider, 54, who had just spent two or three days in a hospital intensive-care unit for what was reported to be a third flare-up of heart trouble in three months. Aides later said he was simply suffering from exhaustion. Lorscheider, who underwent heart surgery two years ago, was well enough to make the trip to Rome, however, and will play an important role in the large, if ideologically divided, Latin American group...
...Americans represented large multinationals, such as Teledyne and General Motors, as well as small firms like RH Packaging of Clearwater, Fla. RH's president, Ron Hume, claims he has invented a machine that packages liquids like yogurt and orange juice at one-third the operating cost of comparable Japanese equipment. So far Hume has found no takers. DuPont's Lind joined the tour only because DuPont last year managed to push through import approval for its new blood analyzers in the remarkably short period of four months (vs. the usual nine to 18 months waiting time); DuPont...