Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every fedayeen unit followed suit. Last week the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for a bomb that exploded in a Tel Aviv marketplace, killing one and wounding 49. In retaliation, Israeli jets bombed Palestinian camps in Lebanon, causing heavy casualties...
Last week Common Market finance ministers met in Brussels to thrash out details of the proposed system. At its core would be the European Currency Unit, or ECU, whose value would be based on a "basket" of European currencies in which the German mark would weigh the most heavily. The ECU would be not a bill or a coin but a series of accounts that member governments would use. European currencies would be allowed to fluctuate around the ECU in a narrow band of 1% either way, and the ECU would float against the dollar. Moreover, when member nations intervened...
...about nine days to the world's first baby conceived outside the human body, had spent a-quiet day together reading the papers and watching television. But shortly thereafter, rumors began to circulate that the baby would arrive soon. Reporters and photographers thronged the entrance to the maternity unit. At 10:45 p.m., John Brown was summoned back to the hospital. Soon after midnight, the announcement came: "Mrs. Brown has been safely delivered by caesarean section of a female child. The child's condition at birth was excellent. All examinations showed her to be quite normal...
...Party Leader Shimon Peres about Peres' talks with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Vienna, came close to weeping, and tore up pieces of paper. At a closed session of Labor delegates, even former Premier Golda Meir wondered aloud whether Begin had lost his senses. Meanwhile, a new "denial unit" in Begin's office, created to offset critical press stories about him, was working full time to explain away the Premier's rostrum behavior...
...apparently tried to get her to stop smoking, but she still sneaks an occasional cigarette. Presumably, she knows of all the concern about her and her baby because she has a television and a radio in her room. From her window, she can see the hospital's children's unit with its gaily colored swings, whirling merry-go-rounds and playful youngsters. Reported a nurse: "She just feels like any other mother-to-be: tired...