Word: undoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bearded President of Cyprus, is a man with a strong sense of the dramatic. Last week, after Presidential Envoy Cyrus Vance had skillfully tied the strings on a settlement between the Turks and Greeks that averted the threat of war over the island, Makarios suddenly balked and threatened to undo the whole package...
...third over 1966-of which U.S. bombers prevent an estimated 30% from reaching the South. The air raids have disrupted highways, bridges, rail lines and infiltration routes, so that at least one out of eight men ordered South never makes it. Moreover, 500,000 civilians have been diverted to undo what the bombers have done. While Haiphong harbor is still a prohibited target, the bombing of adjacent bridges, warehouses and marshaling yards has reduced the port to chaos; last week the one intact bridge leading out of the city was cut, thereby isolating Haiphong until the repair crews...
...Michigan Democrats, last week's special election in the 75th legislative district was a second chance compounded. It was an opportunity to undo the damage of another special election (TIME, June 2), in which the Republicans scored an upset, gained a one-vote majority in the state house of representatives (thus improving the prospects of the G.O.P. tax program), and demonstrated yet again the pulling power of Governor George Romney...
...Shanghai, claimed that fighting took place in Shantung in east China, in northwestern Sinkiang, the site of China's nuclear installations, in Inner Mongolia and in Honan, the largest wheat-growing province. Not surprisingly, the People's Daily last week warned that "anarchism" suddenly threatened to undo all the gains of the Cultural Revolution...
Coburn's real opposition is neither the underdressed Amazons who want to pursue him nor the overplayed villains who try to undo him. It is the same slipshod kind of script that nearly stoned the first cast and this time ensures a sparkless Flint...