Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Israel's targets in the attack were four towns that it claimed were being used as bases for Arab commandos infiltrating into Israel. In recent weeks the Arab terrorists (see box) had stepped up their activities; on the weekend before Israel's retaliatory thrust, they had made six attacks, ranging from outright firefights to a bomb set off in Jerusalem. In the worst incident, they blew up a bus carrying the children of government workers on a tour of the remains of King Solomon's mines near Elath, killing two adults and wounding...
...other leading industrial nations revised a key part of the world's monetary rules. They agreed to stop buying and selling gold, and to use their remaining store of the precious metal only to settle debts between nations. Thus out of their hastily called weekend meeting was born a two-tier pricing system for gold. For central-bank exchanges of gold and dollars, the familiar $35-per-oz. price continues. For speculators, hoarders and industrial users, the price was freed to find its own level in the world's marketplaces...
...blizzard that swept the Ohio valley and Mid-Atlantic states last weekend which forced the cancellation of many bus trips...
...major problem has been to disillusion people," Margolin said in an interview last weekend. "Most seniors still don't believe that they will be drafted after graduation. They think their draft boards are different--but 70 per cent of them are going to end up in Vietnam...
...first group to switch to McCarthy in large numbers was the Massachusetts Draft Rockefeller student organization. Over the weekend, Scott Naren, the student organizer, threw support behind McCarthy...