Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modest synfuels program to come from his proposed windfall profits tax; it would be levied on the increased revenues that U.S. oil companies have been earning since price controls on oil began to be phased out last June. But Congress must now wrestle with a Senate bill passed last week that would yield $178 billion in revenues by 1990 and a House bill that would raise some $277 billion. A compromise of $227 billion was agreed to last week, but details are not expected to be worked out before February...
...operation in Mecca had been intricately planned. For weeks before, the guerrillas had been squirreling away small weapons and food supplies inside the mosque. After the attack began, they concealed their dead and wounded in order to make the government think that the rebel casualties were light. When the two-week siege was finally over, the Saudi national guardsmen discovered the bodies of 300 guerrillas. Most of their faces had been deliberately burned by their surviving comrades to conceal the victims' identities. Some 160 of the intruders were captured, and will be tried on charges of defacing a holy...
...defusing the Iranian crisis and reducing the pressure on America's traditional allies. Until significant progress is made on that score, they believe, there is likely to be neither much sympathy for the U.S. nor much real stability in the region. As a senior British diplomat observed last week, "A settlement of the Palestinian problem would do more for the West in the Middle East than several divisions of U.S. Marines...
When the two first met in 1977, Jimmy Carter and Margaret Thatcher did not particularly take to each other. But much has happened to both since that first frosty encounter. Last week, as Britain's Prime Minister made her first official visit to the U.S., the two stood side by side on the White House lawn beaming with a newfound, very special relationship. On Carter's part, it was first of all sheer gratitude for the most forthright, unequivocal support he has received from any ally; and in the gloom of a dark December her message rang especially...
...others." For Kim Jae Kyu, former Korean Central Intelligence Agency chief accused of murdering President Park Chung Hee last Oct. 26, the words were a defiant attempt to assume total responsibility for the assassination, for which six accomplices were also charged. His plea was in vain. Last week Kim, standing haggard and unshaven before a military tribunal in Seoul, was condemned to death with six others for his abortive coup attempt, which was described by one of the defendants as having been "like a rebellion in a medieval court...