Word: threats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threat of summer heat already lies heavy over Cairo and the rest of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt. The city police have changed their blue flannel uniforms to summer whites. Jacaranda trees are blooming richly purple in suburban Heliopolis, remnants of the district's lost elegance. While the triple peaks of the pyramids of Giza shimmer on the horizon, stately feluccas sail down the Nile as silently as they have done for centuries. Overhead, hawks wheel lazily in gyres. The pace of the people in their flowing gallabia robes, never very fast, has grown a step or two slower...
...fellaheen, who make up more than half of Egypt's population, the threat of Israel is as remote and unreal as any hope of improvement in their ancient way of life or freedom from their backbreaking, dawn-to-dark work on the land. The war is brought home daily to Cairenes in the shabbiness of their once-exciting city, in the tomblike echoes of the airport terminal, in the empty streets of the Moussky shopping district, where donkeys now outnumber tourists?and in the constant shortages. For four years the capital's citizens have endured three consecutive meatless days...
Last week's polls only partly indicate how formidable a threat Poher is to Pompidou. If no one wins a majority on June 1, a runoff election between the two top vote getters will be held two weeks later. Pompidou might then find that Gaullist drawing power is fixed. If Poher, on the other hand, can assemble a large anti-Gaullist coalition - such as defeated the referendum - his current 35% reading might translate into a majority, as those voters who backed candidates eliminated in Round 1 choose between the two survivors. He already has the endorsement...
...Reston wrote on April 27, 1969, that "concessions made by faculties and administrators at ... Harvard to the use of force by campus militants have convinced officials here [in Washington] that justice is too serious a business to be left to university teachers and officials who submit to use and threat of force." But on the contrary, at the meeting of the Harvard Faculty on April 11, the resolution adopted by a vote of 395 to 13 said: "The Faculty of Arts and Sciences deplores the forcible occupation of University Hall on April 9. Responsibility for the events that followed falls...
Shorter will be a top threat in the mile, and will be a clear favorite in the two-mile over the Crimson's Dave Pottetti and Princeton's Eamon Downey...