Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Halfway House. To the dismay and embarrassment of Israeli officials, a growing number of Russian Jews are reluctant to go to Israel. While the vast majority of refugees in the early 1970s went to Israel, 59% of those who arrived at the halfway house for emigrants in Vienna last month expressed a desire to settle in the U.S. Now a long-simmering dispute between Israelis and some U.S. Jewish organizations over the destination of the refugees may jeopardize the future of Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union...
...Czechoslovakia. The hidden cargo is always the same: pistols, submachine guns, mortars and sometimes even rocket launchers. According to one estimate, one out of every ten trucks entering Greece carries contraband weapons. Says Greece's Maritime Minister Alexandras Papadogonas: "The Greek seas are simply a corridor for the vast trade in arms that is now going on in the eastern Mediterranean." In all, at least 10,000 illegal weapons have been confiscated by Greek authorities since the beginning of this year. "A mere dribble," sniffs one Western intelligence analyst, who estimates that the number of weapons flowing illegally through...
...Ludwig has spent more than $200 million on his Amazon company, Jari Forest Products, and he plans to lay out another $300 million in the next two or three years. Jari, named for the muddy, winding Amazon tributary that runs through the Ludwig property, is engaged in transforming a vast stretch of virtually unpopulated jungle into a self-contained commercial kingdom. Already it has half a dozen airstrips serviced by Jari planes, hundreds of miles of roads well traveled by a fleet of more than 500 Jari cars and trucks, and a series of towns and hamlets populated...
...nation are fortunate that school admissions officers have demonstrated a courage and a willingness to read, hear and disregard some of the materials which proclaim the infallibility of standardized tests. Unfortunately, much of such material fails to take into consideration the vast efforts and resources this country put into burning the scars of deprivation and inequality into millions of its citizens. The doors of opportunity were never open to any appreciable number of minority group people. To suggest that all things are equal and the same with various groups is nothing less than intellectual dishonesty...
From the huge, ocher-red viewing stand of Peking's vast T'ien An Men Square, China's newly ordained Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng confidently smiled and waved. Below were assembled more than 1 million representatives of China's proletarian masses, waving placards, paper bouquets and red flags. The well-organized 80-minute demonstration, which was shown on television around the world, marked the official unveiling of China's post-Mao leadership alignment. It also celebrated the end of at least one chapter in a bitter six-week power struggle that saw China...